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Date: | Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:39:56 -0800 (PST) |
From: | David Smiley <DSMILEY AT mitre DOT org> |
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Subject: | Re: username should be lower-case for $USER |
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I know this is clearly a minor problem I am reporting, but a problem nonetheless. Ismael Valladolid Torres-4 wrote: > > David Smiley escribe: >> I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my >> username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". On unix based hosts I log >> into, it is always lower-case. So if I try to SSH to another machine >> where >> I have the same login name, I can't let SSH automatically default to >> $USER >> because the case isn't right. *Even if* Windows user names are case >> sensitive and so there is a difference between DSMILEY and dsmiley (are >> they?, I don't know) I think $USER should be made to be all lower-case to >> be >> consistent with unix environments. > > Making ssh use different user names for logging in to different hosts > is obvious enough IMO. > > Cordially, Ismael > -- > Ismael Valladolid Torres m. +34679156321 > [1]La media hostia j. ivalladt AT jabberes DOT org > > 1. http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/username-should-be-lower-case-for-%24USER-tf2947156.html#a8241408 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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