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From: Andrew Markebo <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com>
Subject: Re: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 10:12:27 +0200
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/ Andrew Markebo <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com> 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.

        /Andy

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