Thank you.
That helps a bit. After running mkpasswd -l, the
$ prompt is now preceded by
Administrator@<machine name>
I suppose if I edit the /etc/passwd file to replace
Administrator with my user name, I will be close
to the expected result.
Apparently my /etc/profile is being ignored. Is
there any documentation on how the user shell
stuff is initialized? Is there another profile
that I should be using, such as .bash_profile?
I have tried to find this sort of file using
the find command, but have not be successful.
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Alan Westhagen wrote:
>
> > I have just installed cygwin. When I
> > run the window, the $ prompt is always
> > preceded by the line
> >
> > I have no name!@<name of computer>
> >
> > What is causing this? and how do I
> > get rid of it?
> >
> > I have defined USER in /etc/profile, but
> > that doesn't seem to have any effect.
> >
> > -- Alan
>
> Alan,
>
> Do you have an /etc/passwd on your machine? If not, run
>
> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
>
> Otherwise, is your user a local user or a domain one? For a domain user,
> you need to run
>
> mkpasswd -u username -d domain
>
> where 'username' and 'domain' are your username and domain.
> Hope this helps,
> Igor
>
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