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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:54:38 +0400
From: Dmitry Bolshakov <dmitry DOT bolshakov AT bridge-quest DOT com>
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Subject: cygwin's ssh/sshd and case insensitive user names in windows
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Hi

windows user names are case insensitive so I can be "bdimych" on one computer in domain and "Bdimych" on another
but ssh/sshd consider they are different users
so I could not just
ssh host1
but need to
ssh Bdimych AT host1

this was unexpected for me and I spent some time to understand this trick
I had solved the problem with
sed -i -e 's/bdimych/bdimych/i' /etc/passwd

I think it would be helpful if ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config would print some warning about it

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With best regards
Dmitry Bolshakov

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