[isf-wifidog] case-sensitive usernames

[Benoit Grégoire]

On Friday 12 January 2007 21:29, Gabe Sawhney wrote:
> 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>

Admittedly, whe should change that, but we need to code a reasonnable way to 
transition, which is not that simple.
-- 
Benoit Grégoire
Technologies Coeus inc.
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