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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:45:23 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin handling of space-separated usernames
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On Jun 16 14:17, Michael PARKER wrote:
> Our domain logins have usernames of the form "firstname lastname". Cygwin
> assigns the USER env. variable to the "firstname lastname" string, but many
> utilities (such as rsh, passwd)that rely upon seeing a non-space-separated
> username, encounter problems when processing logins, reporting user passwd
> information etc.
> 
> Has anyone encountered similar problems and found a successful workaround?
> Can Cygwin be told to map the space-separated Windows domain login to a
> non-space-separated string? Is this a bug in Cygwin's conversion of Windows
> login/user data?

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html has something to say about this.


Corinna

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