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 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.
Making ssh use different user names for logging in to different hosts is obvious enough IMO. Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres m. +34679156321 [1]La media hostia j. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ -- 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/