Re: username case sensitive with the sshd service

[Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Maxime LAMBERT wrote:
> 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?
>
> I do nothing different in the configuration of OpenSSH on Windows Server
> 2012 and on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Okay, but what about the servers themselves; i.e. I'm not thinking
about the configuration of OpenSSH but of the Windows servers.

> However, I don't tried the lastest version of cygwin on Windows Server
> 2008 R2. So, I will try on it and I will keep you in touch.

If you find it works then look at the configuration of the servers and
not the configuration of OpenSSH.

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