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Keith Mitchell wrote:
> In am running Windows XP SP2. I was having trouble with applications 
> running under CygWin because I originally had spaces in my user names. I 
> changed all the user names on my system, eliminating all the spaces in 
> the user names. I then rebooted the computer just in case. Nothing 
> changed. I then deleted my whole CygWin installation and reinstalled 
> everything fresh from the web from scratch. Things were still broken in 
> the same way!! I checked /etc/passwd file. All the user names were 
> wrong. The user names were the same old user names I had in place before 
> I changed the names eliminating the spaces. I do not know where CygWin 
> found a list of those old and obsolete user names containing spaces, but 
> it did find them somewhere. (probably in the registry). And it used them.
> 
> My question. How can I purge those old and now invalid user names so 
> CygWin uses only the current, correct, and valid user names, user names 
> without spaces?

Cygwin gets its information from Windows.  Make sure none of the user
names (local or on any workgroup/domain) that you want to use has spaces
under Windows.  Alternatively, you can go and edit the /etc/passwd file
to change the user names that you want to use.  Don't change SID though.
That's necessary to tie back into Windows.


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