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-Authentication-Warning: snow.cs.uiuc.edu: braz owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:29:45 -0600 (CST) From: Rodrigo de Salvo Braz X-X-Sender: braz@snow.cs.uiuc.edu To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion In-Reply-To: <41B4224F.70204@iinet.net.au> Message-ID: References: <3.0.5.32.20041205105218.0081e100@incoming.verizon.net> <20041205040609.GA36833365@hpn5170> <6.2.0.14.0.20041204183421.04800da8@pop.prospeed.net> <20041205040609.GA36833365@hpn5170> <3.0.5.32.20041205105218.0081e100@incoming.verizon.net> <3.0.5.32.20041205202706.008242c0@incoming.verizon.net> <41B4224F.70204@iinet.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Opening up /etc/passwd in a text editor and doing a search and replace for "Nick > Coghlan" -> "NickCoghlan" worked fine for me. It makes Cygwin happy, and Windows > gets to continue on in blithe ignorance of what is going on. Yes. I think that's the best solution by a lot and the only one that should be in the FAQ. Rodrigo -- 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/