Changing username capitalization?

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Fri Jun 7 12:06:00 UTC 2013


On 7 June 2013 11:08, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to have the same username on my linux machine as on Win7 for
> connectivity purposes.
> I installed linux with all lowercase letters in my username, which is
> what I also did on my Windows7 main machine.
> But the auth log for ssh access from Windows says that the user is
> nonexisting and when I look closer the supplied username starts with a
> capital letter!
> Obviously Microsoft decided to change the username on installation of
> Win7 by capitalizing what was really entered by me and now the
> connectivity is broken...
>
> Since I don't think I can safely change the username on Windows I need
> to do it in linux instead.
> Is there some way to capitalize my username in linux?
>
> Note:
> I have only this single account on linux and it is being used as a web
> development test machine where I want to use rsync via ssh to update
> the web files before testing.


TTBOMK, Windows usernames are not case-sensitive.

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