Windows logins with spaces

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:48:05AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>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

This probably came in during one of the times when our FAQ maintainer
was on a break.

Go ahead and update the FAQ if you are so inclined, Pierre.

cgf

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