Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/09/12/09:32:00
Hello all,
I'm just wondering about something here: I've patched up my profile
script like this:
-- BEGIN diff -u profile~ profile --
--- profile~ Wed Sep 5 12:17:56 2001
+++ profile Wed Sep 5 12:32:18 2001
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"
-USER="`id -un`"
+USER="`id -un | sed s/[' '\t]//`"
# Set up USER's home directory
if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
--- END diff -u profile~ profile ---
This kicks the whitespaces out of the USER, and subsequently the HOME
env variables - works like a charm: when I do printenv | grep Ronald (my
name) I get:
-- BEGIN SNAPSHOT --
Ronald Landheer AT ALLY ~
$ printenv | grep Ronald
PWD=/home/RonaldLandheer
USER=RonaldLandheer
HOME=/home/RonaldLandheer
--- END SNAPSHOT ---
Now here's the strange part - and the reason why I'm mailing:
If you look at the "snapshot" above, you'll see by full name four times
- three times without the space, once *with* the space. I.e.: somehow
Bash still knows there's a space in my name!
Another thing: when I try to get developers access to one of my projects
on sourceforge through CVS, it tries to make the directory
"/home/Ronald Landheer/.ssh"
^^^^^-- note the space!
This being slightly annoying, I'd like to know if there's another
workaround than just logging in under another name on my system.
I've searched the Windoze registry for my name and did "cygcheck -s -r |
grep Ronald" which got this from cygcheck:
-- BEGIN SNAPSHOT --
Ronald Landheer AT ALLY /etc
$ cygcheck -s -r | grep Ronald
USER = `RonaldLandheer'
HOME = `/home/RonaldLandheer'
--- END SNAPSHOT ---
i.e. the two env vars
From the registry, I got one of my sites on the local server a couple of
times, my mail address, my profile path, some micro$oft program prefs
with my name in it, etc.. I also got the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Network
\Logon" which is actually the only one I thought Cygwin might be
interested in - is it?
In summary, my questions:
a. Where does Bash get the space from? (the registry key mentioned
above, or elsewhere?)
b. Idem for CVS - isn't that supposed to use the $HOME variable to
find out where my files live (and where it should plant the .ssh
dir)?
c. Other than logging in under another name, is there a workaround?
d. Should this be considered a bug?
Greetz!
Ronald
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