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Windows logins with spaces
- From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet dot net dot au>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 00:55:09 +1000
- Subject: Windows logins with spaces
- Reply-to: ncoghlan at email dot com
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).
Regards,
Nick.
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