On 23/07/2019 12:00, Andy Burns wrote:
> Fokke Nauta wrote:
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>> mm0fmf wrote:
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>>> Fokke Nauta wrote:
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>>>> I think the reason is that the user name consists of two words with
>>>> a space in between.
>
> Presumably it's easy enough to create another user for testing?
>
>>> The term 'facepalm' springs to mind here.
>>
>> ?
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>
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-2000
-server/bb726984(v=technet.10)>
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>
> It's an old article, but
>
> "Logon names can contain all other special characters, including spaces,
> periods, dashes, and underscores. But it's generally not a good idea to
> use spaces in account names"

Exactly. I've been writing software and such for 36 years for a job. In
that time the one thing I have learnt is that the simpler you keep
usernames and filenames then the more likely you will have success.
Partly it's because the ASCII character set perfectly encompasses the
words I need to write so I have never need umlauts or accents or other
non-ASCII characters. I realise this is a big limitation for many people
on mainland Europe and significant limitation for non-Latin scripts such
as Russia or Asia etc. But hey, consider this, Shakespeare & Chaucer
wrote some damn fine prose in only 24 characters so you should ask
whether your language really needs all those squiggles! (That's a joke
BTW.)

There's no reason why usernames and filenames cannot be UTF-8 or
whatever you want but there is the simple fact lurking that an awful lot
of code has been written when everything was ASCII only (or 7bit ASCII
even) or written by programmers who only think ASCII. The result is code
that considers the space to be a delimiter in a user name such that your
username is 'Fokke Nauta' to Windows and 'Fokke' to something else as it
doesn't accept whitespace and the like.

So in my simple view, just because you can use a space in a username
doesn't mean you should. In fact I think it's a positively dangerous or
even stupid thing to do. It's the equivalent of pulling the pin out of a
grenade and just keeping tight hold of the grip so it doesn't go off.
Eventually something will cause a big bang and spoil your day. Trust me.

I'm not sure you can have a space in a Linux username, I've never
checked. You can try an create a new Windows user, Picard say to keep
the facepalm subject relevant and create your Picard user on the Pi and
see if that fixes things. Or maybe you need to merely escape the space
on any command lines in the normal way (i.e. a \ before the space,
i.e. fokke\ nauta

Me, I'd go fix the username to fokkenauta and kill all the issues in one
fell swoop.

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