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Re: Trouble using whoami and others


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
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