Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

[Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet dot net dot au>]

Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
>
> > So you should do what the faq says.
>
>
> Thanks for the clarifications, Pierre, they will solve my problem. But one
> of the motivations of my original post was that I thought I had done what
> the faq says. I suggest it gets clarified; it says: "You can rename the
> user in the Windows User Manager GUI". I interpreted this to mean to go to
> Control Panel->User Accounts->Rename, and did it. I think many users will
> do the same. Also, as Coughlan pointed out, the real renaming may break
> many things and it may be good to alert users to that.

Opening up /etc/passwd in a text editor and doing a search and replace for "Nick 
Coghlan" -> "NickCoghlan" worked fine for me. It makes Cygwin happy, and Windows 
 gets to continue on in blithe ignorance of what is going on.

Now I just need someone to give CGF a hyperthreaded system so he can work out 
what the heck is going on with hyperthreading, and all will be wonderful ;)

Cheers,
Nick.

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