[horde] Upgrade of Horde from V. 3 to V. 5 failed

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Me <nospam4me at excite.com>:

>> As you already state, *most* systems are not case sensitive, but some
>> are so Horde should at least allow to use case sensitive userIDs. If
>> this is not what you want, Horde allows to change this (and much more)
>> in the horde/config/hooks.php (example is provided in hooks.php.dist)
>> by using a preauthenticate hook. For example
>
>> // PREAUTHENTICATE HOOK: See above for description of format.
>> public function preauthenticate($userId, $credentials)
>> {
>> return array(
>> 'userId' => strtolower($userId),
>> 'credentials' => $entry
>> );
>> }
>>
>> will convert all userID values to lowercase *before* authentication.
>
> Hi Arjen de Korte,
> I agree that Horde should allow for case sensitive userID's for the  
> systems that do use that. But that function should not be enable by  
> default since *most* systems are not case sensitive. And like I  
> mentioned earlier, especially since a lot more people log in to the  
> email with mobile devices with auto correct function on mobile  
> devices. So if my email  address is my name and when I try to log in  
> to Horde from my phone, I type a name: "john", but auto correct  
> changes it to John. System will allow me to log in, but I will have  
> issues with database. This is a very bad decision on Horde part to  
> enable this by default.

You are missing the point. This isn't something that we "decided".  
It's a matter of the case sensitivity of the authentication backend  
(this may be an IMAP server, an LDAP server, a sql server etc...). We  
can't assume that any installation is going to want their usernames  
always lowercased.

-- 
mike
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