username should be lower-case for $USER

[Morche Matthias]

Change the username to lower case on Your Windows login or at least
within cygwins /etc/passwd ...
 

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of David Smiley
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:25 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: username should be lower-case for $USER


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.

~ David Smiley
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