[cvsnt] Re: [Solved] Rlog problem with CVSNT, ViewCVS

Mitch Davis Mitch.Davis at EXTEL.COM.AU
Wed Mar 19 05:25:01 GMT 2003


Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.


> >So spaces are evil ( as usual ).  Windows allows logins to 
> have spaces,
> >unlike the *nix heritage from which CVS derives, so this 
> entry would not be
> >expected.

> Unix does support spaces in usernames (and everywhere else) 
> but it's pretty
> unusual to do so...  The OS will work with it but a lot of 
> apps won't, which
> is the same problem that NT has.

We have 40-odd users here, all with a space in their username.
In general, having a space in the username has given us little
trouble on Linux, with the exception (ironically) of the RCS
utilities such as rlog, rcsdiff etc.  

On Unix, it's common to construct a home directory from the
username, and this is where we had endless trouble, usually
with shell scripts that don't properly quote directory names.
The Red Hat login scripts for example.

In the end I modified Samba so that when the home directory is
constructed from the username, the space is replaced with an
underscore.  This has worked very well.

Still, it took a lot of work to get putty, plink, cvsnt,
tortoisecvs and the Unix-side things to work properly with
spaces.  Life would be easier without spaces in usernames!

Mitch.a

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------
The information contained in this message and any attachments is 
confidential and intended for the named recipient(s). If you have received
this message in error, please contact sender by return e-mail and 
destroy the message and any attachments. 
Any opinions or undertakings expressed in this message are those of the 
individual sender except where the sender expressly and with authority 
states them to be the opinions of Extel. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------


More information about the cvsnt mailing list
Download the latest CVSNT, TortosieCVS, WinCVS etc. for Windows 8 etc.
@CVSNT on Twitter   CVSNT on Facebook