RE: local user capitalization problem.

[Johnathan Thibodeau <jthibo@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Crispin Bivans wrote:

> A possible workaround for your situation would be to create a 2nd user with
> the same unix UID in a lowercase version.. It would be a bit of deception
> that may 'work' while still allowing those users to use their Mixed case
> user. Some unix commands may return the lowercase name (it'd have to be
> tested) but definitely the 'forward' lookups on username to uid should work.
> 

I'm not sure how our popper would react to this. Plus, there are ~200 bash
scripts that modify the password file to do all the account processing.
Finding them all would be a lifes work. (Well, maybe not 200, but you get
my point. Hey, I didn't write the system.)

> But in general the much easier thing would be to eliminate those mixed case
> names.
> 

That's about 100 emails I would rather not send out.

Our current version (2.99.50-s19) does all this perfectally fine, so I
figured it was just a hidden configuration variable that I missed
somewhere. This is starting to look like a source code modification. Fun.

Johnathan Thibodeau
Chebucto Community Net

> -Crispin
> 
> 		-----Original Message-----
> 		From:	Andy Poling [mailto:andy@realbig.com]
> 		Sent:	Monday, January 21, 2002 11:51 AM
> 		To:	Johnathan Thibodeau
> 		Cc:	zmailer@nic.funet.fi
> 		Subject:	Re: local user capitalization problem.
> 
> 		On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Johnathan Thibodeau wrote:
> 		> Now, it would be nice if all our users had lower case
> names, but sadly we
> 		> let them choose their own name on occasion. And despite
> any persuasion to
> 		> so otherwise, they sometime choose a name with capital
> letters.
> 
> 		Just say no.  You'll have no end of headaches.
> 
> 		Email addresses are (practically-speaking) case-insensitive,
> and you cannot
> 		easily deal with that if your usernames are mixed case.
> 
> 		Force them all to all lower-case, and eliminate future
> headaches...
> 
> 		-Andy
> 		
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