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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions MSYS2 on Windows 7 VM Post 302946832 by mrm5102 on Friday 12th of June 2015 06:22:51 PM
Old 06-12-2015
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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PNEWS(1)						      General Commands Manual							  PNEWS(1)

NAME
Pnews - a program for posting news articles SYNOPSIS
Pnews newsgroup title or Pnews -h headerfile [oldarticle] or Pnews DESCRIPTION
Pnews is a friendly interface for posting news articles. It will ask several questions, then allow you to enter your article, and then post it using the inews(1) program. If you type h and a carriage return at any point, Pnews will tell you what it wants to know. The -h form is used when invoked from rn. If your editor can edit multiple files, and you want the article to which you are replying to show up as an alternate file, define the environment variable NEWSPOSTER as "Pnews -h %h %A". You can also modify the the NEWSHEADER envi- ronment variable to change the header file that rn passes to Pnews. ENVIRONMENT
AUTHORCOPY If defined, contains the name of a file to which the finished article will be appended. Default: article not saved DOTDIR Where to find your dot files, if they aren't in your home directory. This is primarily for accounts which are shared by more than one person. Default: $HOME EDITOR The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined. Default: whatever your news administrator installed, usually vi. HOME Your home directory. Default: $LOGDIR LOGDIR Your home directory if HOME is undefined. LOGNAME Your login name, if USER is undefined. Default: value of "whoami". NAME Your full name. Default: name from /etc/passwd, or ~/.fullname. ORGANIZATION Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file containing the name of your organization. Default: whatever your news administrator chose. USER Your login name. Default: $LOGNAME VISUAL The editor you want to use. Default: $EDITOR FILES
$DOTDIR/.article ~/dead.article SEE ALSO
rn(1), Rnmail(1), inews(1) DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
Not the speediest program in the world, but maybe that's a blessing to the net. LOCAL PNEWS(1)
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