Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug

[Pavel Tsekov]

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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