Changing username capitalization?

[Ron Scott-Adams]

Windows usernames are definitely not case-sensitive, and indeed, have never been (at least since NT). See here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722458.aspx

This documentation is echoed for 2000 server with the same claim, though TechNet library didn't yield any ready results about subsequent versions and username case-sensitivity, I can assure you it is not case-sensitive and will accept any case variation of your username.


Ron Scott-Adams
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On Jun 7, 2013, at 08:06 , Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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