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Re: Bug Report: Purging Old and Invalid User Names With Spaces
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:27:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: Bug Report: Purging Old and Invalid User Names With Spaces
- References: <45FAFBD7.4000802@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:19:35PM -0400, Keith Mitchell wrote:
>Problem: Virgin Installs of CygWin on Windows XP work fine but a total
>purge (deletion of all CygWin files and directories) and a fresh
>reinstall with different set of usernames do not work properly, i.e.,
>usernames that have been CHANGED using the XP user manager to new
>usernames. This problem occurred as a result of my changing all my
>usernames with spaces to usernames without spaces to make them Linux
>compatible.
>
>I wanted to thank all for the responses. After many reinstallations of
>CygWin, I finally identified the problem and got things working. This is
>just a bug report documenting my discoveries and what I believe is going on.
>
>1. A virgin install of CygWin makes a list of all user names on the
>system. This list is reflected in /etc/passwd after any reinstall. I am
>guessing this list is stored in the Windows XP registry as this list
>does not exist on the drive where CygWin is installed, in my case, the D
>drive. This list is NEVER updated on subsequent CygWin installs. This is
>the REAL problem: no updates on subsequent installs.
Just in case it isn't clear: *Cygwin* does not store a list of usernames
in the registry.
cgf
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