Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:07:41 +0000 Message-ID: <7004-Tue18Feb2003110741+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Rasmussen Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Username with space in it In-Reply-To: <20030218104313.1331.qmail@web40808.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030218104313.1331.qmail@web40808.mail.yahoo.com> On Tuesday 18 Feb 03, David Rasmussen writes: > My Windows user name is "David Rasmussen". I've found > that some things choke on the space in the user name, > for example bootstrapping gcc. So I would like to use > another name, "david" as my username. Can that be > done? And how? Do you really need to change your user name? You probably just need to change your home directory. See what's currently done in /etc/profile. Set HOME to something else. Make sure you create that directory, and also edit /etc/passwd accordingly. Regards, David -- 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/