DO NOT REPLY [Bug 41848] - [PATCH] Make user names case insensitive

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rfrovarp@apache.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




------- Additional Comments From rfrovarp@apache.org  2007-08-22 08:54 -------
I've closed the bug for the following reasons:

1) Under Windows the login is case sensitive. However, only one case insensitive
version of the account can exist with the last one winning. If account test
exists and the admin creates TEST, test will be wiped out and TEST will become
the correct casing with its password.

2) Users don't expect case sensitivity, or if they do admins don't.

3) Auto form completion in browsers can make it a war to enter the correct user
name since most systems are not case sensitive and browsers don't recognize a
difference. 

4) If LDAP user name and ids match up, admin and user expectations of case
sensitivity probably won't match reality and being case insensitive won't hurt
anything.

5) There is no way to know if a failed login is due to case sensitivity issues,
bad user name, or a bad password. This can make providing support an issue,
trust me I know. 

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