On Jun 16 14:17, Michael PARKER wrote: > Our domain logins have usernames of the form "firstname lastname". Cygwin > assigns the USER env. variable to the "firstname lastname" string, but many > utilities (such as rsh, passwd)that rely upon seeing a non-space-separated > username, encounter problems when processing logins, reporting user passwd > information etc. > > Has anyone encountered similar problems and found a successful workaround? > Can Cygwin be told to map the space-separated Windows domain login to a > non-space-separated string? Is this a bug in Cygwin's conversion of Windows > login/user data?
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html has something to say about this. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
