Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-06 Thread Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Opening up /etc/passwd in a text editor and doing a search and replace for > "Nick > Coghlan" -> "NickCoghlan" worked fine for me. It makes Cygwin happy, and > Windows > gets to continue on in blithe ignorance of what is going on. Yes. I think that's

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:11:43PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: >Now I just need someone to give CGF a hyperthreaded system so he can work >out what the heck is going on with hyperthreading, and all will be >wonderful ;) Yeah, if only "someone" could do that. Then the thousands of people using cy

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: So you should do what the faq says. Thanks for the clarifications, Pierre, they will solve my problem. But one of the motivations of my original post was that I thought I had done what the faq says. I suggest it gets clarif

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-05 Thread Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > So you should do what the faq says. Thanks for the clarifications, Pierre, they will solve my problem. But one of the motivations of my original post was that I thought I had done what the faq says. I suggest it gets clarified; it says: "You can rena

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 01:25 PM 12/5/2004 -0600, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: >On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >> Just type "mkpasswd -l" (assuming you are a local user) and send the output >> together with the name you use to login into Windows and the name reported >> by id -un. > >Thanks. Here it is:

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-05 Thread Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: > > id -un, as it is the case with ssh. Did I miss something or renaming the > > account really doesn't do anything to solve the problem? > > Did you rename the actual account using the Management Console (Control > Panel->Admi

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-05 Thread Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > This is strange. Could you send us the output of mkpasswd and indicate > both the name you use to log in into Windows and the name returned by id -un I didn't run mkpasswd manually because I have changed the account user name before installing Cygwin

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: id -un, as it is the case with ssh. Did I miss something or renaming the account really doesn't do anything to solve the problem? Did you rename the actual account using the Management Console (Control Panel->Administrative Accounts->Computer Management), or did you ch

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-04 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:17:22PM -0600, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: > Hi, > > I had a Windows XP user account whose name had spaces. The Cygwin web site > says that you should change your account's user name to something without > spaces and, if Cygwin is already installed, re-run mkpasswd. Eve

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-04 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:17 PM 12/4/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >I had a Windows XP user account whose name had spaces. The Cygwin web site >says that you should change your account's user name to something without >spaces and, if Cygwin is already installed, re-run mkpasswd. Even before I >installed Cygwin, I changed my