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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 11:48:05 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Windows logins with spaces
Message-ID: <20041106164805.GA339217@hpn5170>
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On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:55:09AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My windows login name has a space in it. I was able to remove the space 
> in Cygwin just by editing /etc/passwd (effectively doing 's/login 
> name/loginname/') and renaming '/home/login name/' to 
> '/home/loginname/'. Cygwin then appeared to find the new home directory 
> quite happily and set HOME and USER to the version of the name with no 
> spaces. HOMEPATH still points to the correct Windows directory.
> 
> This seems much simpler and more flexible than the approach given in the 
> current FAQ (which suggests hardcoding values for USER and HOME in 
> /etc/profile). It should also work with other programs which access 
> /etc/passwd (which *is* mentioned as a problem with the approach given 
> in the FAQ).

You are absolutely right. Substitute text has already been proposed,
see the thread
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q1/msg00315.html

Pierre

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