[imp] Forcing username to lowercase with IMP 5.x

[Joe Besko]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Joe Besko <jbesko at msu.edu>:
>
>> We're running a production version on Webmail Edition 1.2.x and  
>> have gotten the usernames to be forced to lowercase using the  
>> _imp_hook_vinfo hook.
>>
>> I've installed a test version of Webmail Edition 4.0.x for a  
>> simulated upgrade of the production system.  I see there is a way  
>> to force the username to lowercase for the authentication, but I am  
>> uncertain how to get this to work.  I've tried uncommenting the  
>> section of code (example #2) in the horde/config/hooks.php for  
>> authusername, but wondered if there is some other configuration  
>> flag I need to set to enable this functionality.
>
> Do usernames need to be all lowercase for authentication purposes?

Yes.

> If so, you want the 'preauthenticate' hook.  See  
> horde/config/hooks.php for more info.

Thanks.

> authusername is used to convert between an authentication username  
> and a Horde username.  That doesn't sound like what you want.

This is not what I want to do.

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