X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <8241408.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:39:56 -0800 (PST) From: David Smiley To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER In-Reply-To: <20070109163336.GB1952@terra.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: DSMILEY@mitre.org References: <8241120.post@talk.nabble.com> <20070109163336.GB1952@terra.es> 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 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@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/ > > > -- 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/