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: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 11:43:36 +0200 Lines: 17 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:HHsPaBHrD/15xSZ88byFw898yZ8= / Andrew Markebo wrote: | / Andrew Markebo 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 -- The parser of the compiler rests on the code! -- 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/