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Problem with home directory name with spaces
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: Motivus <motivus at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:38:14 +0100
- Subject: Problem with home directory name with spaces
- References: <20020704160555.59431.qmail@web40210.mail.yahoo.com>
On Thursday 4 Jul 02, Motivus writes:
> Hi. My default installation of Cygwin 1.3.11-3 created
> my home directory on my W2K machine as
>
> /home/FirstName MI LastName/
That's bad, lots of things will be broken, as you describe in your
message.
Did you read the FAQ entry:
"My Windows logon name has a space in it, will this cause
problems?"
This should provide all the help you need. If it's still not clear
what to do, reply to this list, so I can amend the FAQ entry
accordingly.
As for what to do with the existing mis-named home directory, just use
Explorer to change the name of C:\cygwin\home\... (depending on where
you installed Cygwin) to whatever you have in /etc/profile and
/etc/passwd. (Something without spaces, obviously.)
Regards,
David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)
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