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From: "Alan Miles" <miles0201 AT cox DOT net>
To: "kaio" <electabuzz AT katamail DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:50:36 -0600
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In-Reply-To: <b6kd20$6dm$1@main.gmane.org>

All,

I have the same problem (on my machine at home) - However I do have a
(partial) solution (I am still working on the final solution):

This has to be done after CYGWIN installation, but BEFORE and user logon.
Edit the /etc/passwd file and replace the space in the first field, and edit
the field /home/<something with space> to /home/<something_with_out_space>
and save.

I am working on a scripting solution to install as part of my installation -
maybe this could be incorporated as part of the "main" CYGWIN release.

Below is a script fragment on how I am proposing to "automate" this fix.

ThePasswordFile="/etc/passwd"
ModUserName="$(/usr/bin/echo "${USER}" | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/ /_/g')"

...

ModHomeUserName="$(/usr/bin/basename "${HOME}" | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/ /_/g')"
ModHomeUserDirName="$(/usr/bin/dirname "${HOME}")/"
ModHome="${ModHomeUserDirName}${ModHomeUserName}"

/usr/bin/rm -f "${ThePasswordFile}"

if [ ! -e "${ThePasswordFile}" -a ! -L "${ThePasswordFile}" ]
then
   /usr/bin/mkpasswd -l -c | /usr/bin/gawk -F':' -v oldUser="${USER}" -v
newUser="${ModUserName}" -v newUserHomeDir="${ModHome}" ' BEGIN {OFS=":" ; }
$1 ~ oldUser {$1=newUser ; $6=newUserHomeDir; } {print $0 ; } ' >
"${ThePasswordFile}"
fi

Hope this helps.

Alan
-----Original Message-----
From: kaio [mailto:electabuzz AT katamail DOT com]
Sent: April 4, 2003 10:48
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko


i have my administrator user named with a space on WInXP.
cygwin installation is ok, but windowmaker don't install: seems that the
space generates a new parameter in installation commands!
in fact, wmaker installation creates a new dir in /home/ with the first half
of username!







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