[dev] Fwd: [horde] Fwd: Case insensitive unique key

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Vilius ?umskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:

>> I don't really care, except that this will break a fair number of
>> existing IMP installations.  So there needs to be a giant disclaimer
>> somewhere in IMP which pretty much says that you can't use hordeauth
>> with IMP anymore.
>
> That's  bad.  'hordeauth' is  used  extensively here. Any chance  
> normalization
> could be done before authentication takes place?

AFAICT, this kind of defeats the whole purpose of making the change in  
the first place.  In other words, converting Horde to normalized  
usernames and then creating a system to un-normalize for certain  
applications is no different/better than what we have right now.  In  
fact, it would be a less desirable solution since it would involve  
large code changes as opposed to the stable status quo code.

So thinking about this a bit more, I am now against this proposal.   
Fixing one issue while simultaneously breaking another isn't an  
acceptable plan of action, since I am nowhere near convinced that the  
solution is vastly more important than keeping the status quo.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]