[isf-wifidog] case-sensitive usernames

[Gabe Sawhney]

I thought I remembered seeing a discussion about this a while ago, but
couldn't find it in the archives.

Usernames are case-sensitive, which has the unfortunate effect of
allowing "gabe" and "Gabe" (and, indeed, "gAbe") to be completely
seperate accounts.  Besides the obvious reason for why this might be
confusing, it's also awkward because most websites that require users
to create accounts aren't case-sensitive in this way.  (They'll
preserve the case of the username as it was entered, but it won't
allow two usernames which differ only in case.)

Obviously there are probably already hundreds of these username case
conflicts in our database, but it'd be nice to prevent any new ones.

Of course, maybe there's some advantage to this that I'm not seeing.
So is it a feature, or a bug?  <smile>

Gabe