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Re: Prompt question


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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