X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45F939D5.9030305@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:19:33 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Purging Old and Invalid User Names With Spaces References: <45F8BEFC DOT 9090504 AT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <45F8BEFC.9090504@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Keith Mitchell wrote: > In am running Windows XP SP2. I was having trouble with applications > running under CygWin because I originally had spaces in my user names. I > changed all the user names on my system, eliminating all the spaces in > the user names. I then rebooted the computer just in case. Nothing > changed. I then deleted my whole CygWin installation and reinstalled > everything fresh from the web from scratch. Things were still broken in > the same way!! I checked /etc/passwd file. All the user names were > wrong. The user names were the same old user names I had in place before > I changed the names eliminating the spaces. I do not know where CygWin > found a list of those old and obsolete user names containing spaces, but > it did find them somewhere. (probably in the registry). And it used them. > > My question. How can I purge those old and now invalid user names so > CygWin uses only the current, correct, and valid user names, user names > without spaces? Cygwin gets its information from Windows. Make sure none of the user names (local or on any workgroup/domain) that you want to use has spaces under Windows. Alternatively, you can go and edit the /etc/passwd file to change the user names that you want to use. Don't change SID though. That's necessary to tie back into Windows. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/