Re: Cygwin handling of space-separated usernames

2005-06-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
PCYMTWLL, please - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL * Michael PARKER (2005-06-16 14:17 +0100) > Our domain logins have usernames of the form "firstname lastname". Cygwin > assigns the USER env. variable to the "firstname lastname" string, No, Cygwin doesn't do anything like that. It's bash i

Re: Cygwin handling of space-separated usernames

2005-06-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 16 14:17, Michael PARKER wrote: > Our domain logins have usernames of the form "firstname lastname". Cygwin > assigns the USER env. variable to the "firstname lastname" string, but many > utilities (such as rsh, passwd)that rely upon seeing a non-space-separated > username, encounter problem