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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:17:22 -0600 (CST)
From: Rodrigo de Salvo Braz <braz AT uiuc DOT edu>
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Subject: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion
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Hi,

I had a Windows XP user account whose name had spaces. The Cygwin web site
says that you should change your account's user name to something without
spaces and, if Cygwin is already installed, re-run mkpasswd. Even before I
installed Cygwin, I changed my user name, but this did not solve the
problem because the command id -un used in /etc/profile to determine the
user continues returning the previous spaced user name. So I manually set
HOME and USER to the right thing in /etc/profile and at least I got the
home directory right and so on. But apparently some programs may still use
id -un, as it is the case with ssh. Did I miss something or renaming the
account really doesn't do anything to solve the problem?

Thanks,

Rodrigo

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