Keith Mitchell wrote:
In am running Windows XP SP2. I was having trouble with applications
running under CygWin because I originally had spaces in my user names. I
changed all the user names on my system, eliminating all the spaces in
the user names. I then rebooted the computer just in case. Nothing
changed. I then deleted my whole CygWin installation and reinstalled
everything fresh from the web from scratch. Things were still broken in
the same way!! I checked /etc/passwd file. All the user names were
wrong. The user names were the same old user names I had in place before
I changed the names eliminating the spaces. I do not know where CygWin
found a list of those old and obsolete user names containing spaces, but
it did find them somewhere. (probably in the registry). And it used them.
My question. How can I purge those old and now invalid user names so
CygWin uses only the current, correct, and valid user names, user names
without spaces?
Cygwin gets its information from Windows. Make sure none of the user
names (local or on any workgroup/domain) that you want to use has spaces
under Windows. Alternatively, you can go and edit the /etc/passwd file
to change the user names that you want to use. Don't change SID though.
That's necessary to tie back into Windows.
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