You're absolutely right - I've gone through the process of changing to a name with no spaces but the problem persisted. After reading this I changed my etc/passwd file so that home was /cygdrive/d/home/kevinj and I'm golden
Thank you, Kevin Jones Developmentor www.develop.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 27 January 2003 15:37 > To: Thorsten Kampe > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SSH and Home > > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > * Kevin Jones (03-01-27 11:54 +0100) > > > I've just started using the cygwin SSH, mostly to do CVS, > and I have a > > > problem with %HOME% > > > > No, you've got a problem with $USER/%USERNAME%. > > > > > I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...] > > > > Don't do that, it's going to bring you nothing but trouble. Change > > your username so it doesn't contain spaces. > > Thorsten > > FYI, there was a long discussion on the list some months ago which > concluded that spaces in usernames are not particularly > harmful (as long > as things are quoted properly in user scripts). If there is a > program/script that is affected by a space in a username, it should be > fixed instead. > > AFAICS, the original poster's problem was that the home directory in > /etc/passwd was not set correctly. sshd sets the home directory to > whatever's specified in /etc/passwd (mostly because it can't > see the user > environment variable %HOME%, running as SYSTEM). The best > way to fix this > is to edit /etc/passwd and set the home directory for the user "Kevin > Jones" to "/cygdrive/d/home/kevinj". > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really > *big* RAMdisk! > -- /usr/games/fortune > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
