/ Andrew Markebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| / Andrew Markebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| | [...]
| | What happens if you add the escape-character to /etc/passwd ?
|
| Tried it myself. worked a little, while like ssh threw in the "\" as
| part of the name.. so if someone should escape it.. it pro
/ Andrew Markebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| [...]
| What happens if you add the escape-character to /etc/passwd ?
Tried it myself. worked a little, while like ssh threw in the "\" as
part of the name.. so if someone should escape it.. it probably is the
guy setting the environment variable HOME.
Igor,
Will do. Thanks for your input.
Alan
-Original Message-
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: April 5, 2003 14:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Alan Miles wrote:
>
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Alan Miles wrote:
> Igor,
>
> I appreciate your input -
>
> >> you can actually *have* two users, e.g., "Alan Miles" and
> >> "Alan_Miles",
>
> That possibility had not occurred to me - thanks for pointing that flaw out.
>
> Since, this for me, is a problem at home, and not at
|
|> cp -a /etc/skel/. $HOME
|
Hi!
Just a quick thought, any special reason HOME doesn't contain a
"legal" path, escaped, as it probably (?) should be on a real unix
system?
(Escaped = /home/Alan\ Miles/ instead of /home/Alan Miles/)
What happens if you add the escape-character to /etc/passwd
Igor,
I appreciate your input -
>> you can actually *have* two users, e.g., "Alan Miles" and
>> "Alan_Miles",
That possibility had not occurred to me - thanks for pointing that flaw out.
Since, this for me, is a problem at home, and not at work -I would have to
investigate this in my own time.
spaces in them to _ characters. Then problem
> "completely" solved.
>
> I appreciate your input.
>
> BTW, Igor got your other message regarding Perl - you said:
>
> >> This wasn't meant to chide you;
>
> You weren't chiding me - my first message I
plicated messages - no problem.
Alan
-----Original Message-
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: April 5, 2003 10:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: kaio; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko
Alan,
The "fix" below has a few problems
Alan,
The "fix" below has a few problems (one of which is unconditionally
removing /etc/passwd). IMO, it's better to fix the scripts that have
improper quoting, or, barring that, unset HOME in your Windows environment
(or modify /etc/profile) and make sure your username doesn't contain a
space.
All,
I have the same problem (on my machine at home) - However I do have a
(partial) solution (I am still working on the final solution):
This has to be done after CYGWIN installation, but BEFORE and user logon.
Edit the /etc/passwd file and replace the space in the first field, and edit
the fiel
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