Re: adding users in CAPS

[Christopher McCrory <chrismcc pricegrabber com>]

Hello...



On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 08:23, Chris Purcell wrote:
> Chuck Mead said:
> > Forget this before you start. Linux filenames are case sensitive. SMTP
> > is not. Case sensitivity for usernames is thus a bad thing <tm>!
> 
> The only reason for this is because we have these scan guns that can only
> use capital usernames and passwords when logging in.  These users don't
> use email, only the scan guns in the warehouse.
> 

the wu-imap package that ships with RHEL3 is case insensitive for
authentication.   e.g. userid: emailuser can login with EmailUser.  You
might search around for how that package does it (pam?
pam_filter/upperLOWER) and make the same changes to your app (telnet?
ssh?).


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