RE: LDAP, auth file and CN

["Bolstridge, Andrew" <an...@intergraph.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Whitlock [mailto:jcscoobyrs@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:56 PM
> To: Giulio Troccoli
> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: LDAP, auth file and CN

[...] 

> In the end, are you sure you're not complicating things?  I mean, I
> can see this being an edge case where a user uses the wrong casing for
> their credentials but wouldn't it be much simpler to explain things
> when this happens instead of altering the tooling to work around a
> potential problem that is user-created?  I mean, when I'm told my
> username is "jwhitlock", I use "jwhitlock", I don't use "Jwhitlock" or
> "jWhitlock" or some other permutation.  Is that such a hard thing to
> relay?
> 

To a user, yes. It's a human-computer-interaction thing that's commonly 
misunderstood by developers. The computer is case sensitive, therefore
you the user must be case insensitive too. Strangely, no-one thinks to
make
the computer work the way humans work.

There are places where case sensitivity has its place. This is not one
of them
But in the absence of a solution, Jeremy's advice is the simplest
resolution.

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