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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next prev parent 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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