unknown user problem.

Fri Apr 11 02:18:00 GMT 2003

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:16:46PM -0500, 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!@<my machine name> ~"
> i.e. cygwin cannot determine my user name...

The most probable reason is that /etc/passwd gives you a uid 
> 65536. Edit /etc/passwd and change it.

Pierre
 

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