Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:12:43 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: Max Bowsher To: David Starks-Browning cc: David Rasmussen , Subject: Re: Username with space in it In-Reply-To: <7004-Tue18Feb2003110741+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: mob22@imap.hermes.cam.ac.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, David Starks-Browning wrote: > On Tuesday 18 Feb 03, David Rasmussen writes: > > My Windows user name is "David Rasmussen". I've found > > that some things choke on the space in the user name, > > for example bootstrapping gcc. So I would like to use > > another name, "david" as my username. Can that be > > done? And how? > > Do you really need to change your user name? You probably just need > to change your home directory. See what's currently done in > /etc/profile. Set HOME to something else. Make sure you create that > directory, and also edit /etc/passwd accordingly. Or, to change your username, simply edit the first field of the relevant line of /etc/passwd - and make sure to change your home dir, as well David Rasmussen:...:/home/David Rasmussen:... becomes david:...:/home/david:... and also rename the directory itself. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/