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/
