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 name, I can't let SSH automatically default to $USER > because the case isn't right. *Even if* Windows user names are case > sensitive and so there is a difference between DSMILEY and dsmiley (are > they?, I don't know) I think $USER should be made to be all lower-case to be > consistent with unix environments.
It would /not/ be consistent with unix environments. Just because *you* haven't used one with capitals in usernames does *not* mean they do not exist. The Opengroup posix spec quite explicitly allows different cases: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_ 426 cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
