X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:33:37 +0100 From: Ismael Valladolid Torres Subject: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER In-reply-to: <8241120.post@talk.nabble.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20070109163336.GB1952@terra.es> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <8241120.post@talk.nabble.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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@jabberes.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/