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 Message-ID: <41B299F8.3090702@iinet.net.au> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:17:44 +1000 From: Nick Coghlan Reply-To: ncoghlan AT email DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion References: <6 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 0 DOT 20041204183421 DOT 04800da8 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: > 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? Did you rename the actual account using the Management Console (Control Panel->Administrative Accounts->Computer Management), or did you change the user name in User Accounts (Control Panel->User Accounts)? The latter doesn't actually rename the account itself - it merely adds a "Full Name" setting which is displayed by the Windows GUI instead of the actual account name. Things like the location of your home directory will still be governed by the actual user name. I'm pretty sure the Management Console will "do the right thing" and actually change the account name properly, but I haven't tested it myself, as I'd prefer not to break anything (like, oh, say, Mozilla Foundation apps like Firefox and Thunderbird that don't use relative paths in their preference files) ;) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan AT email DOT com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://boredomandlaziness.skystorm.net -- 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/