On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 5:25 AM Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > sshd checks usernames case-sensitive against their name stored in the > > user DB. The problem that you can use differently cased usernames > > here is that the Windows function for checking the name is case- > > insensitive, so it takes the username any way it comes in and > > sshd eventually checks against the wrongly cased name. > > > > I fixed that partially in Cygwin by making sure that the account name > > stored in the internal passwd/group info is stored case-correct: > > https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=9a3cc77b2afc > > > > So if you have a domain DOMAIN and a user xyz > > > > $ getent passwd DoMaIn+XyZ > > > > Prior to the above patch it returned > > > > DOMAIN+XyZ:... > > > > Now it will return > > > > DOMAIN+xyz:... > > > > The problem is this: If the account is from another domain than the > > local machine or the machine domain, the call to LookupAccountSid to fix > > the account name won't fix the account name. > > > > Apparently the account name is cached on the local machine in exactly > > the same spelling as has been used when asking for the account the first > > time. I still have to find a way to workaround that. > > That should be fixed now as well. I uploaded new developer snaps to > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and will generate YA test release later > today. Thanks for taking a look at it. Now the problem is that the username must be specified with the correct case. It used to work with COMPUTERNAME+username - where 'username' might contain an uppercase character, but I could type it in all lower-case. Now I have to type the username in all correct case, which seems unexpected. >From a Windows perspective, usernames are case-retentive but not case-sensitive, so this behavior seems unexpected. Expected behavior: Ignore case in both computer names and user names. Thanks! Bill -- 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
