Unix password sync and mixed-case usernames

[Gerald Carter]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Andreas Haumer wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I hate to reply to myself, but as I haven't got any
> response to my original message from June 2nd, and as
> function chgpasswd() still contains this strlower(name) call
> (I just did a CVS update to my working copy), which
> effectiviely disables a correct Unix password sync with
> mixed-case usernames, I would like to ask again if this
> call to strlower() could be removed...
>
> Or did I miss something? Is there any other (preferred) way
> to do Unix password sync with mixed-case usernames?
>
> Comments, anyone?

Probably what we need to do is a Get_Pwnam(user, True) call
in order to deal with WIn9x clients that upper case the username
before sending it.

I'll look into it next week.








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