Username with space in it

[David Starks-Browning]

On Tuesday 18 Feb 03, David Rasmussen writes:
> My Windows user name is "David Rasmussen". I've found
> that some things choke on the space in the user name,
> for example bootstrapping gcc. So I would like to use
> another name, "david" as my username. Can that be
> done? And how?

Do you really need to change your user name?  You probably just need
to change your home directory.  See what's currently done in
/etc/profile.  Set HOME to something else.  Make sure you create that
directory, and also edit /etc/passwd accordingly.

Regards,
David


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