RE: User names with spaces

["DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest at ftb dot com>]

Yes.
Cygwin only really cares about the SSID.
Say my local administrator account is 'Administrator' with an SSID of
S-1-5-21-1111111111-1111111111-1111111111-500.
However, I want cygwin to call it 'root' and call it's home directory
'admin'.
So the line in /etc/passwd would look like this:
root::500:513:U-LOCALHOST\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1111111111-1111111111-1
111111111-500:/home/admin:/bin/bash

And everything works great.
When I open up cygwin, I get this:

root@LOCALHOST ~
$ pwd
/home/admin
root@LOCALHOST ~
$ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: andrew brian clegg [mailto:a.clegg@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:17 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: Igor Pechtchanski
> Subject: Re: User names with spaces
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> > > However I'd like to just change the name of the old 
> account using XP Pro's
> > > facilities for doing so, so I can keep all of my old 
> settings etc., and
> > > just rename my cygwin home dir to match. Has anyone tried 
> this? I don't
> > > want to mess everything up and end up having to reinstall 
> lots of stuff.
> > 
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > Why not simply edit the /etc/passwd entry?
> 
> Umm -- because I'm still slightly hazy and over-cautious about the
> interaction between Windows accounts and cygwin accounts? :)
> 
> I take it then that if I (for example) just change the space to an 
> underscore in my /etc/passwd entry and in "/home/Andrew 
> Clegg/" it'll all 
> work swimmingly when I log back in -- terrific.
> 
> Cheers for the hint,
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 
> 
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