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Re: Prompt question
- From: Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>
- To: Barry Goldstein <bag at shore dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:45:28 -0500
- Subject: Re: Prompt question
- References: <3.0.5.32.20020306154226.0097c7b0@pop.shore.net>
I would guess it gets the "I have no name!" thing because you need to do
a "mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd". I don't think your domain username is in
the passwd file, so it doesn't know who you are.
HTH,
Peter
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Barry Goldstein wrote:
> In the bash shell, my prompt seems to be the two lines below
> I have no name!@INUK ~
> $
> INUK is the machine name (NT4), and '~' is my home directory, but where
> does the thing get the 'I have no name' thing and how can I change it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> BG
>
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