User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
braz@uiuc.edu
Sun Dec 5 09:09:00 GMT 2004
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote:
> > id -un, as it is the case with ssh. Did I miss something or renaming the
> > account really doesn't do anything to solve the problem?
>
> Did you rename the actual account using the Management Console (Control
> Panel->Administrative Accounts->Computer Management), or did you change the user
> name in User Accounts (Control Panel->User Accounts)?
>
> The latter doesn't actually rename the account itself - it merely adds a "Full
> Name" setting which is displayed by the Windows GUI instead of the actual
> account name.
Thanks. I will try that as soon as I figure out how to run mkpasswd.
Meanwhile, it sounds like a good idea to include this bit of info as well
as info on mkpasswd in the FAQ.
Cheers,
Rodrigo
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