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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Schaible=2C_J=F6rg=22?= <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Windows login name, USER and HOME env variables..
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:49:11 +0200
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Hi Ronald!

>  a. Where does Bash get the space from? (the registry key mentioned 
>     above, or elsewhere?)
>  b. Idem for CVS - isn't that supposed to use the $HOME variable to 
>     find out where my files live (and where it should plant the .ssh 
>     dir)?

Easy: Any app that requests the *system* for your user name, will get the
real one. 

>  c. Other than logging in under another name, is there a workaround?

Also have a look at your /etc/passwd that was also generated using system
functionality. I am quite not sure whether you may override the system's
user name here or not, since I do not know how the ported Unix apps really
retrieve the user's name.

>  d. Should this be considered a bug?

IMHO no.

Regards,
Jörg

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