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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Markebo Subject: Re: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 21:57:29 +0200 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RxW9T+oPkKSc1zZHg578YzxfspQ= | |> cp -a /etc/skel/. $HOME | 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 -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! -- 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/