Hello, After nearly ten hours of work today my previous cygwin install which was somewhat kaput (for reasons I don't understand) has been deleted, re-installed, deleted, re-installed again, had multiple packages manually added due to the post-install scripts failing and is finally almost ready to go. Phew!
Anyway the one final issue that remains is that I want to change the user name that is the default user for my cygwin installation. At the moment it's taking the name from my WinXP account name, so home/Hussein Patwa/. I'd like to change it to something that doesn't have a space, but don't want to rename my computer's account. How can I change the user for cygwin without messing up all the internal file paths, etc? Is there a function that will change the name, rename that folder, and also update all the various internals automatically? Thanks for any help. Bear in mind I'm no cygwin guru so please go gentle on me. Kind Regards and Best Wishes, Hussein. -- Tel: 0789 47 595 62 Find me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/p/Hussein_Patwa/510013486 -- 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/
