X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: RE: username should be lower-case for $USER Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:47:17 +0100 Message-ID: <574BF80562AF37419EA4B003C90D756D031FE3DB@EXCHANGE1.belgium.fhm.de> In-Reply-To: <8241120.post@talk.nabble.com> From: "Morche Matthias" To: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l09HlWvN018470 Change the username to lower case on Your Windows login or at least within cygwins /etc/passwd ... -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of David Smiley Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:25 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: username should be lower-case for $USER 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. ~ David Smiley -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/username-should-be-lower-case-for-%24USER-tf294715 6.html#a8241120 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/ -- 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/