Hans, Look at the last number in the SID (last comma-separated entry in the gecos (fifth) field of your /etc/passwd line). For example, on my machine:
igor::1001:544:Igor Pechtchanski,U-igor,S-1-5-21-1681344628-1719607816-643004363-1001:/home/igor:/bin/bash ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The underlined part is the SID. The sequence of digits after the last "-" (dash) is 1001, so my real user id is 1001. In your case, it will be some large number. Igor On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Hans Deragon (LMC) wrote: > Mmm... stupid question, but how does one get the full user id on a > windows machine? I search Google groups, but could not find any > reference to this. If my user id is not 18544, how can I find which one > it is? > > Sincerely, > Hans Deragon > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: New setup: User not found? /cygdrive/h as default home directory? > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:07:11PM -0400, Hans Deragon (LMC) wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > Long time user of cygwin. Got a new job and off course, first thing > > I do is install it. However, I am encounting a problem I never had in > > previous installations. The installation was successfull, but when I > > started a command line window (cygwin.bat), I got the following: > > > > id: cannot find name for user ID 18544 > > Hans, > > here is another possibility in addition to what Igor already wrote. > You may have a uid > 64k. If that is the case, edit /etc/passwd and > change it (the next version of Cygwin will use 32 bit uids). > > > mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory > > cp: cannot create regular file `/cygdrive/h//.bash_profile': No such file or > > directory > > bash: cd: /cygdrive/h: No such file or directory > > If you installed as a domain user, the installation program created an > entry for you with the command "mkpasswd -l -c". It uses > HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to determine your home directory. Run "mkpasswd -l > -c" and look at the last line to see who Cygwin thinks you are. > > Pierre -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/