[horde] gollem dirs act strange

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Frank Lienhard <frank at mclien.de>:

> On 03/01/2017 07:28 PM, Michael J Rubinsky wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Frank Lienhard <frank at mclien.de>:
>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> I have on my server a horde (groupware without webmail) installed via
>>> pear.
>>> I added gollem to share files with others.
>>> One of the users told me that last night the dir share/<username> was
>>> missing.
>>> And next day it was there but with a capital letter like share/<Username>
>>> I configured gollem to use part of the real filesystem as storage and on
>>> the server (cli) I can see that there are in fact now 2 dirs.
>>>
>>> How do I now diagnose what happened there?
>>
>> Sounds like maybe the user logged in with a differently cased username.
>> I.e., "Username" vs "username" and your VFS backend is case sensitive.
>> You may want to investigate the use of a hook to normalize the login name.
>>
>
> I was thinking of that too.
> The server is running centOS (which IS case sensitive like any *NIX I know).
> Is that a common know problem with these setup or Do I have to test that
> with an extra dummy-user.
>
> I'd normally expected the system to respond with a loginfail in the case
> that the user "noob" tries to log in with the name "Noob" (like it would
> happen for a linux login).

It depends on the authentication backend.

> Or is that impossible for reasons like horde running on an OS, which
> doesn't work case-sensitive?
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