On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > However I'd like to just change the name of the old account using XP Pro's > > facilities for doing so, so I can keep all of my old settings etc., and > > just rename my cygwin home dir to match. Has anyone tried this? I don't > > want to mess everything up and end up having to reinstall lots of stuff. > > Andrew, > > Why not simply edit the /etc/passwd entry? Umm -- because I'm still slightly hazy and over-cautious about the interaction between Windows accounts and cygwin accounts? :) I take it then that if I (for example) just change the space to an underscore in my /etc/passwd entry and in "/home/Andrew Clegg/" it'll all work swimmingly when I log back in -- terrific. Cheers for the hint, Andrew. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
