On Feb 13 09:23, Bill Stewart wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 9:10 AM Corinna Vinschen > <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > This can't work correctly with OpenSSH. The decision to allow only > > the correct case in OpenSSH was made back in 2010, because otherwise > > we would need a lot of special rules in OpenSSH just for Cygwin. > > Sorry, but that's how it is. > > Thanks for the explanation -- this is understandable. > > In that case, the former arrangement before the patch was preferable. > > That is: For DOMAIN+username or COMPUTERNAME+username, the part before > the "+" must be UPPERCASE, but the username is not case-sensitive. > > IMO This is the simplest and most straightforward arrangement.
No, that was a bug. With case insenitive usernames, the pattern matching in OpenSSH won't work and you create a potential security problem. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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