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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions MSYS2 on Windows 7 VM Post 302947366 by mrm5102 on Wednesday 17th of June 2015 12:54:00 PM

06-17-2015

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Bump....

Update:
Not sure I did this correctly or if it's going to mess anything up later on down the road, but I made a slight workaround... Haven't actually changed the existing Username, which I want to do but after reading some stuff for Cygwin, which is what MSYS is built off of I believe, it said the User in Cygwin is directly linked to that of your Window's User. So any files/folders will also be owned by your Windows User, or something along those lines...

But anyway, since MSYS does not create a /etc/passwd file, I ran the command

Code:

/usr/bin/mkpasswd  >  /etc/passwd

which created the passwd file using all existing user information. Then I simply modified the HOME dir portion of my User's line in /etc/passwd to a 'first intial last name' format, like "/home/flastname".

Then I copied everything from the old HOME dir to the new one using these 2 commands. Needed both because the first cp did not copy hidden files...

Code:

# cp -R /home/First*/* /home/flastname/
# cp -R /home/First*/.* /home/flastname/

After I did all that and I opened a new MSYS terminal, I was automatically taken to the NEW home dir by default.

I would still love to be able to change the Username itself if at all possible, but still have not found any instructions on how to do so.

I did however read an interesting article on someone trying to do this with Cygwin and what they did was:
1st) They installed Cygwin completely.
2nd) After the installation and before opening Cygwin for the first time they said they opened "/etc/passwd" and found the line containing their default Window's User and changed the username to something without whitespace, like the first initial and lastname format.
3rd) They opened the Cygwin terminal for the first time and Ta-Da, the new username was used instead...

Does that sound like something I should try? Could something like that mess-up anything else? Maybe file permissions, or something along those lines...? I would just hate to have to re-download any packages I've installed or re-do any modifications I made to the system already

Or... Maybe there is a way to "trick" MSYS into thinking it's the first time I'm opening MSYS and I could try the above, any idea..?

Thanks,
Matt

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File::Spec::Cygwin(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   File::Spec::Cygwin(3pm)

NAME

       File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs

SYNOPSIS

	require File::Spec::Cygwin; # Done internally by File::Spec if needed

DESCRIPTION

       See File::Spec and File::Spec::Unix.  This package overrides the implementation of these methods, not the semantics.

       This module is still in beta.  Cygwin-knowledgeable folks are invited to offer patches and suggestions.

       canonpath
	   Any "" (backslashes) are converted to "/" (forward slashes), and then File::Spec::Unix canonpath() is called on the result.

       file_name_is_absolute
	   True is returned if the file name begins with "drive_letter:", and if not, File::Spec::Unix file_name_is_absolute() is called.

       tmpdir (override)
	   Returns a string representation of the first existing directory from the following list:

	       $ENV{TMPDIR}
	       /tmp
	       $ENV{'TMP'}
	       $ENV{'TEMP'}
	       C:/temp

	   Since Perl 5.8.0, if running under taint mode, and if the environment variables are tainted, they are not used.

       case_tolerant
	   Override Unix. Cygwin case-tolerance depends on managed mount settings and as with MsWin32 on GetVolumeInformation() $ouFsFlags ==
	   FS_CASE_SENSITIVE, indicating the case significance when comparing file specifications.  Default: 1

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