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

RE: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

Hi all, My first constructive post to this group outside of my inane question asking... TDavid Smiley wrote: I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my username in upper-case. So it is DSMILEY. As David said, that's because you created your username in

Re: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

First - On 1/9/07, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: $USER is a Windows environment variable and Cygwin doesn't change it. It just reports what Windows says. Not true. $USER is actually a shell variable, and is (re)set by the shell (bash, ash, tcsh, what