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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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DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Win32(3)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Win32(3)

NAME

       DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Win32 - Determine the local system's time zone on Windows

VERSION

       version 1.63

SYNOPSIS

	 my $tz = DateTime::TimeZone->new( name => 'local' );

	 my $tz = DateTime::TimeZone::Local->TimeZone();

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides methods for determining the local time zone on a Windows platform.

HOW THE TIME ZONE IS DETERMINED

       This class tries the following methods of determining the local time zone:

       o   $ENV{TZ}

	   It checks $ENV{TZ} for a valid time zone name.

       o   Windows Registry

	   When using the registry, we look for the Windows time zone and use a mapping to translate this to an Olson time zone name.

	   o	   Windows Vista and 2008

		   We look in "SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/TimeZoneInformation/" for a node named "/TimeZoneKeyName". If this exists, we use
		   this key to look up the Olson time zone name in our mapping.

	   o	   Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server

		   We look in "SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Time Zones/" and loop through all of its sub keys.

		   For each sub key, we compare the value of the key with "/Std" appended to the end to the value of
		   "SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/TimeZoneInformation/StandardName". This gives us the English name of the Windows time zone,
		   which we use to look up the Olson time zone name.

	   o	   Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millenium Edition

		   The algorithm is the same as for NT, but we loop through the sub keys of "SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Time
		   Zones/"

AUTHOR

       Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Dave Rolsky.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

perl v5.18.2							    2013-10-28				       DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Win32(3)