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From:	Andrew Markebo <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com>
Subject:	Re: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko
Date:	Sun, 06 Apr 2003 11:43:36 +0200
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/ Andrew Markebo <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com> wrote:
| / Andrew Markebo <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com> wrote:
| | [...]
| | What happens if you add the escape-character to /etc/passwd ?
|
| Tried it myself. worked a little, while like ssh threw in the "\" as
| part of the name.. so if someone should escape it.. it probably is the
| guy setting the environment variable HOME.

Duh and thinking a little more, some apps is reading the environment
variable $HOME and, well then they will try to open "a\ subdir" not "a
subdir". *sigh* rewind.. forget me ;-)

         /Andy

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