On Apr 3 12:17, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Why not just getting used to entering the username casesensitive, as > > on any other system? > > > > Would modifying the /etc/passwd file to lowercase names support what > the OP wants to do? Not that he should but is that possible?
Sure. And nothing speaks agains doing it. You can also just change the name entirely and use that to login: $ grep Administrator /etc/passwd divine_being:unused:500:513:U-mymachine\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1111111111-1111111111-1111111111-500:/home/divine_being:/bin/bash $ ssh divine_being@localhost See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
