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Re: SSH and Home
Please do not send email to me and to the list. Thanks.
* Igor Pechtchanski (03-01-27 16:37 +0100)
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> * Kevin Jones (03-01-27 11:54 +0100)
>>> I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...]
>>
>> Don't do that, it's going to bring you nothing but trouble. Change
>> your username so it doesn't contain spaces.
>
> FYI, there was a long discussion on the list some months ago which
> concluded that spaces in usernames are not particularly harmful (as long
> as things are quoted properly in user scripts). If there is a
> program/script that is affected by a space in a username, it should be
> fixed instead.
I was referring to the "official" point of view:
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC17
Thorsten
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