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Re: Prompt question
Aha. Sounds like it might be a problem with the space in the name. I am
not sure how to work around that with mkpasswd. But you could probably
do a "mkpasswd -l >> /etc/passwd" (I didn't realize you weren't in a
domain environment).
You can also try Corinna's suggestion about "mkpasswd -u "Barry
Goldstein" >> /etc/passwd", or maybe "mkpasswd -u Barry\ Goldstein >>
/etc/passwd". Note that the space needs to be quoted.
About the colors, are you checking off "modify the shortcut which
started this window"? It sounds like you are only modifying the one
window, and so the next command window has the same bad colors.
HTH,
Peter
Barry Goldstein wrote:
> At 04:17 PM 3/6/2002 -0500, Peter Buckley wrote:
>
>>Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did "mkpasswd -l >>
>>/etc/passwd", so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in
>>fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe?
>>
>>It actually should just sit there for a long time when you do "mkpasswd
>>-d >> /etc/passwd". It is adding all the users from the NT domain to the
>>passwd file. You can do a "mkpasswd -d | grep bgoldstein >>
>>/etc/passwd", that will take the same amount of time but only put your
>>username in the passwd file (where bgoldstein is your username).
>>
>>HTH,
>>Peter
>>
>
> Thanks -- yes, there is a mkpasswd.exe in bin.
>
> I did mkpasswd -d >&mkpasswd.txt and got the following
> Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
> SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> mkpasswd: error 2453
>
> My machine is not on a LAN (just a cable modem to my ISP). I log on to NT
> as "Barry Goldstein", with full administrator privileges. Maybe the space
> in the name is causing the error?
>
> My cygwin home directory is /usr/bag, FWIW.
>
> I just tried mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd and the first three lines above are
> indeed in the file, but I still have no name.
>
> It's not worth a lot of hassle, but I'm going to wrestle with the PS[0-9]
> environment vars which set the prompt (and are also, I think, responsible
> for the lousy colors (even if I change them with the NT box properties,
> they go right back to lousy at a new prompt).
>
> Thanks.
>
> BG
>
>
> ==
> Barry Goldstein Pequod Software
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> Newtonville, MA 02460-1846 +1-617-332-5758 (home)
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>
>
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