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Subject: Re: Username is case-sensative
From: Damien Katz <damien@apache.org>
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:24:38 -0700
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A simple fix for this is to normalize to lowercase names during =
registration and login, then the user can put in whatever mixed case =
they want.

-Damien


On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Ido Ran <ido.ran@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I agree, it should not be forced - I think it should be the default.
>> If you know what you are doing and have a good reason to use =
case-sensitive
>> usernames then go ahead, but for the rest of us, it should be as =
simple as
>> it can.
>> How Couch people say - case-insensitive username is more relaxing :)
>>=20
>=20
> CouchDB uses document lookups to find users, so doing this would
> involve making docids case-insensitive, which isn't gonna happen.
>=20
> The good answer would be to add whatever iPhone tags you have to add
> to keep it from doing that stupid auto-shift key thing on login forms.
>=20
> I'd love a patch for that against this file:
>=20
> =
http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/blob/master/vendor/evently/account/log=
inForm/mustache.html
>=20
> Chris
>=20
>> Ido
>>=20
>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Robert Newson =
<robert.newson@gmail.com>wrote:
>>=20
>>> The question is whether CouchDB should force everyone to do that or
>>> not. I think it should not.
>>>=20
>>> B.
>>>=20
>>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Tyler Gillies <tyler@pdxbrain.com> =
wrote:
>>>> I think case insensitivity is good, prevents thing from getting
>>> complicated
>>>> with two users one named tyler and one named Tyler
>>>>=20
>>>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Randall Leeds =
<randall.leeds@gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:13, Ido Ran <ido.ran@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Unix, Linux, Windows, Gmail, Skype
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> Any application I can think of treat username in case-insensitive =
way.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Really???
>>>>>=20
>>>>> rleeds@randalltor:~$ sudo -u Rleeds
>>>>> sudo: unknown user: Rleeds
>>>>> rleeds@randalltor:~$
>>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> --
>>>> http://www.readwriteweb.com/about#tyler
>>>>=20
>>>> Ask me anything <http://tumble.pdxbrain.com/ask>!
>>>>=20
>>>=20
>>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> --=20
> Chris Anderson
> http://jchrisa.net
> http://couch.io