$HOME name

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 10:46 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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!

I agree with not using a name with blanks... (nose held between fingers) but 
if it is required (maybe by some PHB)  how about using a symlink?

/home/<userid>  --->   /home/'my\ screwed\ up\ directoryname'

I think this would work but stand to be corrected.
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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         06/29/05 11:56  +
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