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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 22:58:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Alex Vinokur <alexvn AT come DOT to>
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Subject: Re: Prompt : I have no name!
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Alex,
The /etc/passwd looks ok (assuming you have no users other than the
adminstrator).  Is it readable by the administrator?
This could have happened if you've introduced ntsec into your CYGWIN
environment variable, and your /etc/passwd wasn't readable by the
administrator.  Also, the `pwd` looks wrong, what's the output of mount on
your machine?
Another possibility is if you've lost your registry settings and SIDs,
which could happen if you've reinstalled Win2k.
	Igor

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Alex Vinokur wrote:

> ==============
> Windows 2000
> CYGWIN_NT_5.0
> ==============
>
> Something happened to CYGWIN on my machine.
>
>
> ====== cygwin.bat Invocation : BEGIN ======
>
> I have no name!@5AT8S8CQEEX4QHI ~       ### it was Administrator AT 5AT8S8CQEEX4QHI ~
> $
>
> $ whoami
> whoami: cannot find username for UID 500
>
>
> $pwd
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr            ### it was : /usr
>
>
> $ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin: <.....>
>
> ====== cygwin.bat Invocation : END ========
>
>
>
> ====== etc/passwd : BEGIN ======
>
> Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
> SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-5AT8S8CQEEX4QHI\Administrator,S-1-5-21-602162358-839522115-547660867-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
> Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-5AT8S8CQEEX4QHI\Guest,S-1-5-21-602162358-839522115-547660867-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash
>
> ====== etc/passwd : END ========
>
>
>
> ====== cygwin.bat : BEGIN ======
>
> @echo off
>
> C:
> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
>
> bash --login -i
>
> ====== cygwin.bat : END ========
>
>
> Have I changed/removed something ?
>
>
>    ==================
>    Alex Vinokur
>      mailto:alexvn AT go DOT to
>      http://up.to/alexvn
>    ==================

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