[jcifs] Upper-casing the username and password.

[Allen, Michael B (RSCH)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Christopher R. Hertel [SMTP:crh at ubiqx.mn.org]
> Sent:	Sunday, November 10, 2002 3:17 PM
> To:	jcifs at samba.org
> Subject:	[jcifs] Upper-casing the username and password.
> 
> Mike, et. al.,
> 
> No further news on whether the username should be upcased in the
> 
	You could test by removing the toUpperCase on line 109 in
	SmbComSessionSetupAndX.java.

> SESSION_SETUP_ANDX but I found this in the smbclient(1) man page:
> 
>               Note:  Some servers (including OS/2 and Windows for
>               Workgroups) insist on an uppercase password. Lower
>               case  or  mixed  case  passwords may be rejected by
>               these servers.
> 
> So that's why W/9x up-cases plaintext passwords.  jCIFS only speaks the
> NT LM 0.12 dialect, however, so we can't talk to those older systems
> anyway.  That means that it probably doesn't matter.  The SNIA doc uses
> the name "CaseInsensitivePassword" for the ANSI password field, which
> suggests that, in plaintext mode, it doesn't matter whether the password
> is upcased or not.  The server will do a case-insensitive comparison to
> see if it's valid.  That's all guess-work, mind you, but as theories go
> it seems to be holding up.
> 
	In NT+ passwords are case sensitive.


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