Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: convey Information Systems To: Charles Hixson Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:51:18 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: lots of problems in cygwin Reply-to: gerrit@familiehaase.de Message-ID: <3B61AA16.9228.184BD83@localhost> References: <3B619487.16665.1308799@localhost> In-reply-to: <01072708114000.01252@chixso.mtc.ca.gov> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) Am 27 Jul 2001, um 8:11 hat Charles Hixson geschrieben: > On Friday 27 July 2001 07:19 am, you wrote: > > Hi Ronghua, > > > > ... > > > another problem is after install, why my user name is > > > 'unknown', how can i change it. > > > > Try: > > $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd > > $ mkgroup -l > /etc/group > > > > And look in the docs how to modify these files, if you have > > problems: > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKGROUP > > and: > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html > > > > ... > > gph > > I believe that the mkpasswd command doesn't work in Win95/98. > At least that was what I was told when I had trouble with it > last year. As i tried last time, there was a file generated with one line in it. And it is enough to display your Name at the prompt. At least that was what it did for me last time at a win98 box. gph -- Gerrit P. Haase -- 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/