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From:	Andrew Markebo <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com>
Subject:	Re: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko
Date:	Sat, 05 Apr 2003 21:57:29 +0200
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|>   cp -a /etc/skel/. $HOME
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Hi!

Just a quick thought, any special reason HOME doesn't contain a
"legal" path, escaped, as it probably (?) should be on a real unix
system?

(Escaped = /home/Alan\ Miles/ instead of /home/Alan Miles/)

What happens if you add the escape-character to /etc/passwd ?

     /Andy

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