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 Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 11:48:05 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Windows logins with spaces Message-ID: <20041106164805.GA339217@hpn5170> References: <418CE5CD DOT 5000406 AT iinet DOT net DOT au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <418CE5CD.5000406@iinet.net.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/