Re: [patch] Auth to have case sensitive username matching in DB container

From: 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.

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