username should be lower-case for $USER

[David Smiley <DSMILEY at mitre dot org>]

I am new to Cygwin.  I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my
username in upper-case.  So it is "DSMILEY".  On unix based hosts I log
into, it is always lower-case.  So if I try to SSH to another machine where
I have the same login name, I can't let SSH automatically default to $USER
because the case isn't right.  *Even if* Windows user names are case
sensitive and so there is a difference between DSMILEY and dsmiley (are
they?, I don't know) I think $USER should be made to be all lower-case to be
consistent with unix environments.

~ David Smiley
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