username case sensitive with the sshd service

Earnie Boyd earnie@users.sourceforge.net
Wed Apr 3 13:11:00 GMT 2013


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Maxime LAMBERT wrote:
> I installed the last version of Cygwin (2.774) with the OpenSSH package on
> a Windows Server 2012 and when I tried to establish a connection in ssh,
> I noticed that the username was case sensitive (username@IP).
> With old versions of Cygwin with the SSH package that I'm using on Windows
> Server 2008 R2, I don't have this problem. For example, if I have an
> Administrator account with a "A" in upper-case, I can establish a
> connection both with $ssh administrator@IP and $ssh Administrator@IP. The
> username case sensitive is a new feature in the lastest package of
> OpenSSH? Can I deactivate the username case sensitive in the sshd service?

Are you sure it isn't an issue of configuration in the Windows Server
2012?  Will the current OpenSSH version work as expected on the
Windows Server 2008?

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