Resolved: username and other OpenSSH-related problems

[Richard Troy <rtroy at sciencetools dot com>]

...For the Archive - for the ones who follow who search the archives, I
offer this:

I have no solution to Windows passing off usernames with capitalized
letters, but SSH does provide a solution in the form of a "config" file in
~/.ssh which may contain a specific username to use when connecting to a
specific named host. The name of the host used is arbitrary and may be
redirected with the use of a specified "HostName"... Note also that no,
Unix/Linux does not permit capitalization in usernames.

Next up; The ssh provided with Cygwin is OpenSSH. OpenSSH continues to use
ssh version 1 format keys while the other two main codelines of ssh2
(Finnish non-commercial and normal commercial) use a different key format.
The two formats are not compatible, however, there are tools to either
create or convert keys and, in fact, such an ability comes with the cygwin
provided. (See: http://www.netsys.com/cgi-bin/display_article.cgi?1254)

Richard

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Richard Troy, Chief Scientist
Science Tools Corporation
rtroy at ScienceTools dot com, 510-567-9957, http://ScienceTools.com/

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Richard Troy wrote:

> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:53:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Richard Troy <rtroy at sciencetools dot com>
> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Username problem - was Re: OpenSSH problem - nd advice or pointer
>
>
> ...When one has tried all the obvious things, try evaluating your
> assumptions!
>
> Assumption I had made: username was being passed correctly! WRONG! I
> suddenly realized that when I used ssh -l syntax I got a different
> response from the server. I then found that cygwin was using Richard
> instead of richard as my password. -sigh-  ...So, I changed the account on
> Windows to richard, but the problem persists. I'm not sure this has
> anything to do with the SSH problem itself (as described below), but I'd
> sure like to get it to start using the actual username - richard - instead
> of capitalizing the firs character - Richard. Make sense? Can I controll
> what SSH sees via an environment variable, or some other configuration
> choice on Windows? (Converting the username to have uppercase characters -
> is that even possible on Linux?! -smile- ...Guess I'm about to find
> out!...  -smile- )
>
> Input would be great.
>
> Richard
>
>


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