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06-12-2015

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MSYS2 on Windows 7 VM

Hello All,

Hopefully I'm posting this in the correct place...

I just recently installed MSYS2 (*32-bit) on a Windows 7 VM I have running on my Linux Host. I have a basic question about User management on MSYS.

MSYS2 i686: Version 20150512

I'm guessing when MSYS gets installed it uses your Window's info, like username/etc to create your user in MSYS and to build your User's HOME dir (*i.e. /home/<win_username>)and stuff like that. Since My Window's User contains my first and last name, when MSYS installed it created my home dir as "/home/First Last", with the whitespace inbetween... This is starting to become a real nuisance. I could not find the file I would normally use to be able fix this, which is "/etc/passwd". So I'm kind of stumped on how I can resolve this.

I didn't want to just rename the HOME dir to something else because I figured that would break the env var HOME and also "~" (*i.e. tilde).

So basically what I want to do is change my Username and Group Name in MSYS, as well as change the Home directory after the username is changed.

Is this possible? Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Thanks in Advance,
Matt

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GLOBUS-UPDATE-CERT(8)					      GSI-C OpenSSL Commands					     GLOBUS-UPDATE-CERT(8)

NAME

       globus-update-certificate-dir - Update symlinks in the trusted CA directory

SYNOPSIS

       globus-update-certificate-dir [-help] [-d DIRECTORY]

DESCRIPTION

       The globus-update-certificate-dir program creates symlinks between files (CA certificates, certificate revocation lists, signing policy,
       and certificate request configuration files) using the certificate hash the installed version of OpenSSL uses. OpenSSL 1.0.0 uses a
       different name hashing algorithm than previous versions, so CA distributions created with older versions of OpenSSL might not be able to
       locate trusted CAs and related files. Running globus-update-certificate-dir against a trusted CA directory will add symlinks to the files
       to the hash if needed.

       The full set of command-line options to globus-update-certificate-dir consists of:

       -help
	   Display a help message to standard output and exit

       -d DIRECTORY
	   Create links in the trusted CA directory DIRECTORY instead of using the default search path.

ENVIRONMENT

       If the following variables affect the execution of globus-update-certificate-dir

       X509_CERT_DIR
	   Default trusted certificate directory.

       HOME
	   Path to the current user's home directory.

       GLOBUS_LOCATION
	   Path to the Globus installation.

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