On 10-jan-2007 Dave Korn wrote:
>On 09 January 2007 22:15, David Smiley wrote:
>
>> I forgot to add, I log into a windows domain and so I can't set the
case.
>> Perhaps this issue only relates to windows domain logins. Maybe they
>> are case insensitive because when I log into the domain, I ALW
...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
On 09 January 2007 22:15, David Smiley wrote:
> I forgot to add, I log into a windows domain and so I can't set the case.
> Perhaps this issue only relates to windows domain logins. Maybe they are
> case insensitive because when I log into the domain, I ALWAYS specify it in
> lower case. I don't
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
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
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> On 1/9/07, David Smiley wrote:
> >
> > I forgot to add, I log into a windows domain and so I can't set the
> > case. Perhaps this issue only relates to windows domain logins.
> > Maybe they are case insensitive because when I log into the domain, I
On 1/9/07, David Smiley wrote:
I forgot to add, I log into a windows domain and so I can't set the case.
Perhaps this issue only relates to windows domain logins. Maybe they are
case insensitive because when I log into the domain, I ALWAYS specify it in
lower case. I don't think I've ever see
On 1/9/07, Shankar Unni wrote:
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 username in ALL UPPERCASE
when setting up the user on Windows.
The only
I forgot to add, I log into a windows domain and so I can't set the case.
Perhaps this issue only relates to windows domain logins. Maybe they are
case insensitive because when I log into the domain, I ALWAYS specify it in
lower case. I don't think I've ever seen it presented to me (in Windows)
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 username in ALL UPPERCASE
when setting up the user on Windows.
The only way to "fix" this for you would
Change the username to lower case on Your Windows login or at least
within cygwins /etc/passwd ...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of David Smiley
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:25 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: username should be lowe
I know this is clearly a minor problem I am reporting, but a problem
nonetheless.
Ismael Valladolid Torres-4 wrote:
>
> David Smiley escribe:
>> 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
>
On 09 January 2007 16:25, David Smiley wrote:
> 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
David Smiley escribe:
> 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 aut
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