RE: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

...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 rec

Re: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

First - On 1/9/07, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > $USER is a Windows environment variable and Cygwin doesn't change it. > It just reports what Windows says. Not true. $USER is actually a shell variable, and is (re)set by the shell (bash, ash, tcsh, wh

RE: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

Hi all, My first constructive post to this group outside of my inane question asking... > TDavid Smiley wrote: > > I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has > > my username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". > > As David said, that's because you created your usern