$HOME name

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:33, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> in /etc/passwd, can I have a home directory name that contains the space 
> character? How could I specify in /etc/passwd? Prefixing the space with 
> "\" didn't work. I think I needed to use something like \032 to do it...

On AT&T Unix at least, anything typed after the login name is supplied
as a parameter to the login process. Meaning that any part after the
first word would not be considered part of the user name. Don't know if
Linux login is the same (seems to be BSD based), but I still think I
would avoid this usage!


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