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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: SSH and Home
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:45:28 +0100
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Please do not send email to me and to the list. Thanks.

* Igor Pechtchanski (03-01-27 16:37 +0100)
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> * Kevin Jones (03-01-27 11:54 +0100)
>>> I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...]
>>
>> Don't do that, it's going to bring you nothing but trouble. Change
>> your username so it doesn't contain spaces.
> 
> FYI, there was a long discussion on the list some months ago which
> concluded that spaces in usernames are not particularly harmful (as long
> as things are quoted properly in user scripts).  If there is a
> program/script that is affected by a space in a username, it should be
> fixed instead.

I was referring to the "official" point of view: 
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC17


Thorsten
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