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Subject: RE: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:50:52 +1030
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...snip...
> If the user ID is created with lower-cased letters, it will be stored
> and reported in lower-cased letters.  At least that is how the Windows
> 2003 Active Directory where I work expresses its user IDs.
...snip...

U-huh. Just played around in the GUI and that seems to be true.  I
reckon 
I was getting confused with some APIs returning in upper.  The
comparisons
Certainly are case insensitive, tho.

TFT!

-doug

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