username case sensitive with the sshd service

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:33:42PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote:
>Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>
>> That's not the right thing to do.  By sticking to OpenSSH-5.2p1, you
>> end up with an old version of OpenSSH, with unfixed security bugs,
>> thus thwarting the sole reason why you're using SSH.
>
>> Why not just getting used to entering the username casesensitive, as
>> on any other system?
>
>Which "other system" you're referring to? I don't know of any that treating
>user names case-sensitive. (Not that I know of many... But Windows, Linux and
>Mac OS X don't.)

On linux:

% su cGf 
su: user cGf does not exist

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