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Re: Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug
- From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at gmx dot net>
- To: James Begley <james at hafro dot is>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:18:22 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug
Hello,
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, James Begley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just upgraded to the most recent version (1.3.19) of the cygwin dll, and
> I have small, weird problem. The bash prompt no longer shows the username
> correctly - see examples below. I am running cygwin from a Win2000 machine,
> with service pack 3 installed.
>
> ============================================
> m>ao@hafnasandur ~
> $ id -un
> james
> ============================================
I've just posted about the same issue :) You are missing the entry for
james in the /etc/passwd file. Update the passwd database with mkpasswd
and you should be fine.
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