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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20041204223252.04e7f2f8@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 22:35:25 -0500 To: Rodrigo de Salvo Braz , Cygwin List From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion In-Reply-To: References: <6.2.0.14.0.20041204183421.04800da8@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:17 PM 12/4/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >I had a Windows XP user account whose name had spaces. The Cygwin web site >says that you should change your account's user name to something without >spaces and, if Cygwin is already installed, re-run mkpasswd. Even before I >installed Cygwin, I changed my user name, but this did not solve the >problem because the command id -un used in /etc/profile to determine the >user continues returning the previous spaced user name. So I manually set >HOME and USER to the right thing in /etc/profile and at least I got the >home directory right and so on. But apparently some programs may still use >id -un, as it is the case with ssh. Did I miss something or renaming the >account really doesn't do anything to solve the problem? Just change your user name in the first field of /etc/passwd. That will take care of it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/