Created attachment 179434 [details]
This is shown when I login with a username containing white space

My system is configured to accept users in my Active Directory domain, everything works fine except the gconf when the username has a white space.

For eg, if I login with the user "DOMAIN\admin", the system will create the home dir:
/home/DOMAIN/admin

And everything will work fine.

But if I login with the user "DOMAIN\josé roberto", the system will create the dir:
/home/DOMAIN/josé roberto

And gconfd will fail as shown in the attachment.

I tried to change many config files and I think that it's related with the line:
xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf

It's in the file: /etc/gconf/2/path

I tried to add quotes in 3 different ways:
xml:readwrite:"$(HOME)"/.gconf
xml:readwrite:"$(HOME)/.gconf"
"xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf"

But that didn't work.

That line is probably being included in a line like:
conftool-2 --config-source xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf

and the argument get incorrectly splited 
conftool-2 --config-source xml:readwrite:/home/DOMAIN/josé roberto/.gconf
arg0: conftool-2
arg1: --config-source
arg2: xml:readwrite:/home/DOMAIN/josé
arg3: roberto/.gconf

when it should be:
conftool-2 --config-source "xml:readwrite:/home/DOMAIN/josé roberto/.gconf"
arg0: conftool-2
arg1: --config-source
arg2: xml:readwrite:/home/DOMAIN/josé roberto/.gconf

This is happening in Debian 5 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

I can't simply rename the users because there are more than 800 usernames with space...