On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 6:14 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > From this reference, it seems that a POSIX-compliant username cannot > > contain the + character? > > *should*, not *must*. It may be a portabiliy problem but it's not > strictly disallowed. I'm also not sure what this has to do with the > matter at hand.
I was looking for a simple way to resolve the case issue. > > So my suggestion is for Cygwin to convert the name part before the + > > automatically to upper (or lower) case. > > The problem may be compatibility with existing scripts and OpenSSH > Match rules. This makes sense. My suggestion may be a bit too simplistic. > I'm in the process of discussing with the OpenSSH maintainers how to > proceed. Sounds good. Thank you for thinking about this problem. I understand the username case needing to match. This is easily instructed on the Windows side - just make sure the case matches and it will work. I think this is the difficulty: When a computer name is not uppercase, how do we find out the correct case when we specify an authority name (before the +)? (A domain name is easier: We can translate name -> SID -> name and get the correct case.) -- 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
