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Re: sshd: computer name's case must match?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 9:26 AM Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> No, that was a bug.  With case insenitive usernames, the pattern
> matching in OpenSSH won't work and you create a potential security
> problem.

I see - interoperability issue.

Therefore it becomes imperative on the Windows side to match username
case exactly and we need to explain this.

However I would say that the case of the domain or computername
shouldn't matter?

I just tested with cygwin1.dll (13 Feb 2019) and this worked:

ssh COMPUTERNAME+username@computername

however this didn't work:

ssh computername+username@computername

Am I not understanding something?

Thanks!

Bill

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