On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:55:09AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > 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).
You are absolutely right. Substitute text has already been proposed, see the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q1/msg00315.html Pierre -- 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/
