Re: [patch] Auth to have case sensitive username matching in DB container
| From: | \[php\]Walter | Date: | Thu, 13 May 2004 20:05:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [patch] Auth to have case sensitive username matching in DB container | ||
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"Ian Eure" <ieure@php.net> wrote in message
news:200405131044.20220.ieure@php.net...
> What version? What type is your username column? I can't reproduce this
> behavior with a simple SELECT:
> This is with MySQL 3.23.49. What version are you using?
mysql 4.0.18 win
I'm on a NT server
>
> mysql> select * from user where User = 'iEUre';
> Empty set (0.00 sec)
> mysql> select * from user where User = 'ieure';
> ...
> 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>
>
> > I don't follow this. "not a BC break"??
> >
> > What does that mean?
> >
> I mean that I don't think it breaks backwards compatibility. I mean, it
> obviously /does/ break it, but I believe that it's correcting broken
> behavior, and should be allowed. But having the username case match is, i
> think, a reasonable thing to do.
>
> Though I suspect that your problem has rather more to do with your
database
> than Auth itself.