Username with space in it
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Tue Feb 18 12:51:00 GMT 2003
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, David Starks-Browning wrote:
> 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.
Or, to change your username, simply edit the first field of the relevant
line of /etc/passwd - and make sure to change your home dir, as well
David Rasmussen:...:/home/David Rasmussen:...
becomes
david:...:/home/david:...
and also rename the directory itself.
Max.
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