Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <005701c1d53f$76de7170$bc02ecc2@dawnrazor> From: "Rincewind" To: Subject: Space in username error; stomped newbie Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 04:28:29 +0100 Organization: NSU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Hi! I'm sorry for wasting bandwith with a stupid question, but seraching the archives and looking through the FAQ haven't helped me. My login name in Win XP have a space in it wich is no good so I want to force CygWin to use another account that doesn't ahve that problem. I know I'm supposed to edit /etc/profile, but I'm not sure what to change. I've revomed the ID check and set it to "Steiner" instead (The account I want to use). In bash later I can echo $USER and get Steiner, BUT... path is still set incorrectly and if I do whoami I also get the wrong user. What exactly do I need to do to use the correct account by default so that path etc is set correctly? Best Wishes/TIA Thomas -- 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/