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Re: username case sensitive with the sshd service
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 18:24:16 +0200
- Subject: Re: username case sensitive with the sshd service
- References: <001c01ce307b$db3a8840$91af98c0$ at vertech dot eu> <20130403151229 dot GA19412 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <CA+sc5mmZJF=-91A1QUae7dBcZZ-f_1tuBtVQwd66=u-Ugxa7Vw at mail dot gmail dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 3 12:17, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > Why not just getting used to entering the username casesensitive, as
> > on any other system?
> >
>
> Would modifying the /etc/passwd file to lowercase names support what
> the OP wants to do? Not that he should but is that possible?
Sure. And nothing speaks agains doing it. You can also just change
the name entirely and use that to login:
$ grep Administrator /etc/passwd
divine_being:unused:500:513:U-mymachine\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1111111111-1111111111-1111111111-500:/home/divine_being:/bin/bash
$ ssh divine_being@localhost
See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files
Corinna
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