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Subject: "cannot find username for UID XXX"
From: Johan Parin <Johan DOT Parin AT era DOT ericsson DOT se>
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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 19:59:31 +0200
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Hi all,

Just installed Cygwin on Win2K. It's working fine except that I don't
have a username ;( . This has some bad consequences like not being
able to use ssh. id returns the following:

uid=479 gid=10513(mkgroup_l_d)
groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(mkgroup_l_d)

uid 479 is not in passwd, as can be seen in attachment.

My username should be erajpaa. I have no idea where Cygwin picks up
uid 479 from. If I start up cmd.exe, I can see the following USER
related variables:

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
USERDNSDOMAIN=eemea.ericsson.se
USERDOMAIN=EEMEA
USERNAME=erajpaa
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\erajpaa

These are inherited by the Cygwin shell, which however also creates

USER=479

Could I have done something wrong during installation, or can I do
something to fix this now?

Should I change the uid for erajpaa in passwd, or can I do something
to convince Cygwin I'm uid 66015 instead?

Any help is appreciated.


-- 
Johan Parin <Johan DOT Parin AT era DOT ericsson DOT se>


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