[ic] problems with mixed case usernames

Kevin Walsh kevin at cursor.biz
Sun Apr 11 03:32:53 EDT 2004


Ron Phipps [rphipps at reliant-solutions.com] wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > It seems that a lot of my users/customers are forgetful when it
> > > > comes to their login details and despite the provision of a means
> > > > to retrieve their logon details by email they tend to opt for
> > > > creating a new account. 
> > > > 
> > > > After a bit of investigation, it appears that this all boils down
> > > > to the case of the letters in the username. IC appears to see
> > > > "Mark" and "mark" as different when it comes to username/account
> > > > creation and I wondered if it was possible to make the process case
> > > > insensitive or forced lowercase? 
> > > > 
> Try changing this:
> 
> [if type=explicit compare="[userdb new_account]"]
> 
> to this:
> 
> [if type=explicit compare="[userdb function=new_account ignore_case=1]"]
> 
Or, to default to ignore_case, add the following into catalog.cfg:

    UserDB default ignore_case 1

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