That did it.
Thanks for all the replies.
btw & fwiw I am logged into NT 4 as default 'Administrator' user. I
created entries in /etc/passwd for both 'administrator' and
'Administrator'. It was 'administrator' that got picked up as being my
user in the bash shell.
-- Curt
At 06:59 PM 5/3/01 -0400, Mark Bradshaw wrote:
>Curt,
> That message shows when the user you are currently logged in AS is not
>defined in the passwd file. Check the passwd file and add a line for your
>current user.
>
>Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Curt Springer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 6:26 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: ssh -- you don't exist, go away!
>
>
>Hi,
>I downloaded cygwin as vanilla as possible afaik to my win nt 4.0 box.
>
>from setup log:
>Installing latest/openssh/openssh-2.5.2p2-3.tar.gz
>
>when I try to use ssh to get to a host on which I have an account (and
>which I access regularly using Secure CRT), I get the message
>"you don't exist, go away!"
>
>Same result whether typed in bash shell or executed in windows bat file at
>'dos' prompt.
>
>I can execute the command on a win 2000 machine where some version of
>cygwin was installed some time ago, and it works fine.
>
>I hunted around previous postings but didn't find anything quite like this.
>
>Could somebody tell me what to look at.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- Curt Springer
>
>
>Curt Springer
>Senior Software Architect
>Application Engineering Services
>Central Administration Information Technology
>Harvard University
>Cambridge, Massachusetts
>USA
>+1 617 384 7177
>
>"Le désordre c'est l'ordre vu diffèrement."
>HYREN 283 av.JC
>
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Senior Software Architect
Application Engineering Services
Central Administration Information Technology
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA
+1 617 384 7177
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