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Re: username case sensitive with the sshd service
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:48:06 -0400
- 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> <155274271 dot 20130403203342 at mtu-net dot ru>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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