[sork] Problem with upper/lower-case in user name

Jesper Holck jesper.holck at ibsgaarden.dk
Fri Feb 7 17:05:21 PST 2003


I experienced a rather puzzling problem with the
forward-module. A user with username "smith" logged
successfully into Horde Imp using the username "Smith"
and the correct password.

However, when the forward module tried to create
the .forward file in the user's home directory
(using ftp), it failed. Apparently because ftp
cares about upper/lower-case in usernames, while
Horde does not.

So my suggestion is that Imp and Sork are consistent
in this respect. Either both should care about
upper/lower-case (which would prevent the user
from logging in, using the "wrong" username Smith)
or both should not care (allowing the user to
create the .forward file).

Thank you for all the effort put into these very
useful programs.

Jesper, Denmark




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