From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31563 invoked by alias); 26 Jun 2003 16:25:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31555 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2003 16:25:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web40207.mail.yahoo.com) (66.218.78.68) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jun 2003 16:25:37 -0000 Message-ID: <20030626162533.64409.qmail@web40207.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [207.171.180.101] by web40207.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:25:33 PDT Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:47:00 -0000 From: Mike Meyers Subject: cannot find name for user id To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg01232.txt.bz2 I'm having problems with cygwin on Win XP. The error message on login is: id: cannot find name for user ID 56986 This has all sorts of ramifications for various utilities, such as pine. I have read through the archives and I see the common solution being the password file entry. Here is mine: mmeyers:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:122522:10513:mmeyers,U-ANT\mmeyers,S-1-5-21-1407069837- 2091007605-538272213-112522:/cygdrive/c/home/mmeyers:/bin/bash Sure enough if I convert 122522 to binary I get 111011110100110101. I strip that down to 16 bytes I get 1101111010011010 which converted to decimal is 56986... which is the UID it complains about not finding. So far so good. The problem is I have changed the passwd file to have a smaller UID (1010), but I still get the same error. In fact it still complains about not finding UID 56986. Any ideas/help would be appreciated. Mike __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/