[Yanel-dev] User account names to lower case

[Michael Wechner]

Hi

Sometimes users complain that they cannot login anymore. The reason for 
this is sometimes, that these users registered with a lower case email 
address, but later entered the "same" email address but with some upper 
case characters (or the other way around), e.g.

michael.wechner at wyona.com
Michael.Wechner at wyona.com

"Some" Linux systems are able to differentiate between lower and upper 
case in the filesystem, whereas Windows but also the regular Mac OS does 
not.

This can lead to various issues .... but generally speaking I believe 
that in the case of login names we should transform everything to lower 
case anyway (for security reasons).

WDYT?

In case nobody objects we would change this, whereas we have a couple of 
choices to do this, backwards compatible (introducing a new policy 
manager) and not backwards compatible (changing the existing policy 
manager), but more on that later...

Thanks

Michael