RE: upgrading broke cygwin?

["Val Schmidt" <vschmidt at ldeo dot columbia dot edu>]

Yes, this has caused much trouble.  

I'm assuming I must create a new XP account to that of a single word
username, and then change that in the cygwin passwd file. Would a reasonable
procedure be something like the following:

1)Create a new XP user
2)Copy all details from /Documents and Settings/Older Username/ to
/Documents and Settings/New_Username
3)Modify passwd in cygwin to match New_Username 
4)Mv all files in /home/Older Username to /home/New_Username
5)Change ownership recursively of all files under /Document and
Settings/New_Username to be owned by New_Username.  (Do this via cygwin
chown or by WinXP ACL?).  Do the same under /home/New_Username
6)Verify all files are accessible under New_Username account
7)Delete the Older Username WinXP account.

I'm frightened of what might become broken in the process.

-Val


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Kierer [mailto:Harald dot Kierer at astrum dot de]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:54 AM
> To: 'Val Schmidt'; 'cygwin'
> Subject: Re: upgrading broke cygwin?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Val Schmidt [mailto:vschmidt at ldeo dot columbia dot edu]
> > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:43 PM
> > To: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'cygwin'
> > Subject: RE: Re: upgrading broke cygwin?
> >
> >
> > I appreciate the help.
> >
> > It's not clear to me why either mkpasswd or mkgroup in my
> > home directory
> > would cause the effects I and others have been seeing with the latest
> > version of cygwin.
> >
> > At any rate, here's the results of my ls -al on my home directory.  No
> > mkpasswd or mkgroup.
> >
> > -Val
> >
> > $ ls -al
> > total 11492
> > drwxrwxr-x+  15 Administ Administ        0 Feb 23 14:33 ./
> > drwxrwxr-x+   3 Administ Administ        0 Jan 28 15:40 ../
> > -rw-rw----    1 Administ Administ     4518 Feb 21 16:57 .bash_history
> > -rw-r--r--    1 Val Schm None          596 Feb 20 15:54 .bash_profile
> 
> "Val Schm". Your username has a space. no good. Maybe give this a try:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg01366.html
> 
> bye,
>  harry


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