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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: question about $USER and installs Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:28:11 +0200 Lines: 12 Message-ID: <14b17f3a55bgw.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: <20040413014137.31865.qmail@web11701.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-252.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.10.1de * Erik Weibust (2004-04-13 03:41 +0100) > I am installing cygwin on a friends computer and his > windows username has a space in it. I know this is a > problem. What do you reccomend that I do. Change his user name so it has no spaces. The space will make problems anyway. > Do I need to add a new windows user or is there a way > I can change my user name in /etc/passwd? edit the file -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/