How do I get an identity

How do I get an identity

[Clark Sims]

When I run wget, I get an error message:
wget: Cannot determine User-id

When I run whoami, I get:
whoami: cannot find username for UID 500

I haven't been able to get su to work either.

How do I get an identity?

Thanks in Advance,

Clark Sims


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Re: How do I get an identity

[DJ Delorie]

> How do I get an identity?

Try creating an /etc/passwd file with a suitable line in it for uid
500.

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Re: How do I get an identity

[Corinna Vinschen]

DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > How do I get an identity?
> 
> Try creating an /etc/passwd file with a suitable line in it for uid
> 500.

Cygwin has tools named `mkpasswd' and `mkgroup' to create 
passwd and group files. Start them without options for help.

Corinna

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Re: How do I get an identity

[Andreas Bergstrøm]

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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Cygwin has tools named `mkpasswd' and `mkgroup' to create
> passwd and group files. Start them without options for help.

I tried running these two commands, windows gave an error stating that
they were linked to missing exports:

NETAPI32.DLL:NetUserEnum      - MKPASSWD
NETAPI32.DLL:NetApiBufferFree - MKGROUP

While BASH looked like this:

BASH.EXE-2.02$ mkpasswd
BASH.EXE: //E/PROGRA~1/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/mkpasswd: Permission denied
BASH.EXE-2.02$ mkgroup
BASH.EXE: //E/PROGRA~1/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/mkgroup: Permission denied
BASH.EXE-2.02$

I tried using GDB, but I do not know what an error 31 is.

(gdb) run
Starting program: //E/PROGRA~1/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/mkpasswd.exe
Error creating process //E/PROGRA~1/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/mkpasswd.exe, (
error 31)

Does anyone how to correct this?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: How do I get an identity

[Corinna Vinschen]

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Andreas Bergstrøm wrote:
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Cygwin has tools named `mkpasswd' and `mkgroup' to create
> > passwd and group files. Start them without options for help.
> 
> I tried running these two commands, windows gave an error stating that
> they were linked to missing exports:
> 
> NETAPI32.DLL:NetUserEnum      - MKPASSWD
> NETAPI32.DLL:NetApiBufferFree - MKGROUP

Sounds to me as if you are using 9X. It misses most NetApi functions.
Sorry, no passwd support! You have to create one by yourself as
described by DJ.

Corinna

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