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Re: Trouble using whoami and others
- To: cwilson at pclink dot dynip dot com (Christopher Wilson)
- Subject: Re: Trouble using whoami and others
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 04:03:22 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
Christopher Wilson wrote:
>
> Don't know how to fix this problem;
> I or another user types 'whoami' and get this responce:
>
> whoami: cannot find username for UID 500
At this point in Cygwin32's development, you need to create
/etc including /etc/group and /etc/passwd using mkgroup and mkpasswd
(provided with the tools).
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Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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