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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:21:58 -0700
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Subject: Re: Username is case-sensative
From: Chris Anderson <jchris@apache.org>
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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 :)
>

CouchDB uses document lookups to find users, so doing this would
involve making docids case-insensitive, which isn't gonna happen.

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.

I'd love a patch for that against this file:

http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/blob/master/vendor/evently/account/loginForm/mustache.html

Chris

> Ido
>
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Robert Newson <robert.newson@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The question is whether CouchDB should force everyone to do that or
>> not. I think it should not.
>>
>> B.
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Randall Leeds <randall.leeds@gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:13, Ido Ran <ido.ran@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Unix, Linux, Windows, Gmail, Skype
>> >> >
>> >> > Any application I can think of treat username in case-insensitive way.
>> >>
>> >> Really???
>> >>
>> >> rleeds@randalltor:~$ sudo -u Rleeds
>> >> sudo: unknown user: Rleeds
>> >> rleeds@randalltor:~$
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > http://www.readwriteweb.com/about#tyler
>> >
>> > Ask me anything <http://tumble.pdxbrain.com/ask>!
>> >
>>
>


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