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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.4
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141029200158.GF20607@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C9D37D92E903B347A31B9CF82643BA2807303413@046-CH1MPN1-043.046d.mgd.msft.net>

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On Oct 29 19:06, Habermann, Dave (DA) wrote:
> Found one interesting observation today after switching to the new AD
> authentication.  My ability to use password-less login via SSH
> suddenly went missing.  Although I haven't fully resolved it yet
> (which I suspect may take regeneration/proliferation of keys), it
> would appear that I've been the victim of case sensitivity.  In my old
> passwd file I had my user ID present in all lower case, but apparently
> in Active Directory my user ID is present as upper case.  I am still
> able to make it log password-less using
> 
> ssh u012356@cr
> 
> but
> 
> ssh cr
> 
> does NOT work, because my user ID is defaulting to U012345 (upper case
> U).  In this case, however, I can STILL log in if I enter my password.
> 
> I don't really think there is anything to correct here, but just
> wanted to point out the oddity in case anyone else suffers from a
> similar issue.

This has been discussed a few months back, but there was no majority
for "always lower-case the Cygwin user name".


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-29 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-29 12:15 Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-29 17:37 ` Denis Excoffier
2014-10-29 17:51   ` Tim Prince
2014-10-29 20:00   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-29 19:06 ` Habermann, Dave (DA)
2014-10-29 20:02   ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-10-30 13:11     ` Habermann, Dave (DA)
2014-10-29 19:28 ` Habermann, Dave (DA)
2014-10-29 20:03   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-30 13:03     ` Habermann, Dave (DA)
2014-10-30 14:06       ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-30 16:21         ` Habermann, David (D)
2014-10-30 17:19           ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-30 23:35           ` Andrey Repin
2014-10-31 12:29             ` Habermann, David (D)
2014-10-31 12:50               ` Andrey Repin
2014-11-01 16:59 ` Christian Franke
2014-11-01 17:40   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-03 14:55     ` Corinna Vinschen
     [not found] <1415026765.23338.ezmlm@cygwin.com>
2014-11-03 15:09 ` Houder
2014-11-03 16:22   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-03 17:57     ` Houder

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