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Username case sensitiveness

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Status
Closed
Subject
Username case sensitiveness
Version
2.x
Category
  • Usability
  • Feature request
Feature
User Administration (Registration, Login & Banning)
Submitted by
Marc Laporte
Volunteered to solve
sylvieg
Lastmod by
amette
Rating
(0)
Description

In earlier versions of Tiki, usernames for login were case insensitive.
marclaporte = MarcLaporte

Now, they are case sensitive:
marclaporte <> MarcLaporte

This is a usability problem, especially with non-technical users.

When trying to login with their username (with a different case) they get "Invalid username or password".

So they try to use tiki-remind_password.php (again with the wrong case) The error message is: "Unable to send mail. User has not configured email: MarcLaporte"

So they end up trying to create another user. When they try to create a new user with a different case, they get an error "User already exists". If usernames are really case sensitive, I should be able to create 2 distinct users, MarcLaporte and marclaporte. This would obviously lead to confusion.

My request / suggestion:

Restore case insensitiveness in usernames for logins (or at least restore the option with much better error messages when in case sensitive mode)

Thanks!

M 😉

Solution

Done in 1.10!
Sylvie

THIS BUG IS DEFINITEVLY CLOSED. another bug in the trackers

Closed due to sylvie's definitive statement! 😉

Importance
9 high
Priority
45
Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
Ticket ID
195
Created
Wednesday 18 May, 2005 18:56:59 UTC
by Unknown
LastModif
Sunday 09 October, 2005 00:46:35 UTC


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