Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:27:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Dmitriy Kargapolov cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "unknown user" problem In-Reply-To: <4807E5F849D14746A4ED2B3F9B58B5C3569FE6@CMIMAIL1.corp.amdocs.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/Plain; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Dmitriy Kargapolov wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed latest cygwin on my Win2000 using regular NT-user account > (I have no administrator privileges) and I've got warning when starting > cygwin: > "id: cannot find name for user ID 20479" > and I have next default prompt in bash: > "I have no name!@ ~" > i.e. cygwin cannot determine my user name... > > Related problem - I can not use scp command - it fails with message: > "unknown user 20479" > > next example: > $ whoami > whoami: cannot find username for UID 20479 > > Does anybody know how to setup cygwin so it can distinguish my username? > > Might be it LDAP-related problem? > > Thanks in advance. Dmitriy, Looks like your /etc/passwd is not up to date (and probably /etc/group as well). Is your user a domain user by any chance? If so, read for the usage of the -d option. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/