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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:52:16 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
Subject: Re: Username with space in it
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David,

Two other things:

1) Remember that your /etc/passwd is non-standard and re-apply the 
manual changes whenever you regenerate your password file with 
"mkpasswd". An auxiliary copy might help--it can be diff-ed against a 
newly generated.

2) Change the user name, too. I replace spaces with underscores. It can 
help with programs that parse the output of "ls -l" or any other 
program that includes user names.

Randall Schulz


At 03:07 2003-02-18, 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.
>
>Regards,
>David


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