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RE: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER
- From: "Irwin, Doug" <doug dot irwin at eds dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:50:52 +1030
- Subject: RE: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER
...snip...
> If the user ID is created with lower-cased letters, it will be stored
> and reported in lower-cased letters. At least that is how the Windows
> 2003 Active Directory where I work expresses its user IDs.
...snip...
U-huh. Just played around in the GUI and that seems to be true. I
reckon
I was getting confused with some APIs returning in upper. The
comparisons
Certainly are case insensitive, tho.
TFT!
-doug
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