I just thought I'd let you guys know, I technically used the same email to register a different account. The system treats "foo@bar.com" as a different email to "FOO@BAR.COM". This renders the "one account per email" restriction flawed.

I was also capable of using the username "ADMIN", while "admin" is disallowed by the system. It might be a good idea to review "when and when not to use case insensitive comparisons".

asked 08 Dec '10, 07:46

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Good catch, @Seb. This really belongs in the Jira more than here. We need to fix this.

(08 Dec '10, 08:12) rickross ♦♦

Did this ever make it into JIRA? I searched for a ticket and couldn't find one.

We have OSQA linked to LDAP. I logged in from iOS once and my username was automatically capitalized, OSQA treated it as a different user but LDAP ignored case, so now there are two accounts in OSQA that authenticate to the same LDAP account. Yuck.

(13 Aug '11, 18:35) Burke

This is not an answer to the question, so it should not be posted as an answer. It would be more appropriate as a comment on the question, itself. I will move it.

(13 Aug '11, 20:13) rickross ♦♦

That seems to be a trend today. Case insensitiveness of things. Gonna repeat myself. Use a case insensitive collation, and all that stuff will be case insensitive.

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answered 13 Aug '11, 21:41

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Hernani - hope you don't mind me converting this to an answer : it does seem to answer the question perfectly

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