From: sam@inf.enst.fr (Samuel Tardieu) Subject: Re: UID to Username 8 Mar 1997 12:33:21 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: References: <33206A3D.113F@hazbro.com> Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.101) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Original-To: "TC Hazzard" Original-Cc: gnu-win32 list In-Reply-To: "TC Hazzard"'s message of Fri, 07 Mar 1997 14:19:25 -0500 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.11/XEmacs 20.0 X-WWW: http://www-stud.enst.fr/~tardieu/ X-PGP-key: finger -l tardieu@cyclic.com X-Mail-Processing: Sam's procmail tools Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com >>>>> "TC" == TC Hazzard writes: TC> I am using the gnu-win32 bash. Whoami is not able to map the UID TC> to the username. And I have not found a setting in NT 4.0 to allow TC> this. Anyone have an answer? Thanks. Create a file called /etc/passwd (Unix style) and add an entry for the uid you want (500 if I remember correctly). Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@inf.enst.fr - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".