Author: fines
Description:
We're new to Mediawiki so if this has been discussed to death, sorry! We found that one of
the first things we wanted to do is make logins not be case sensitive. We wrote a small
patch for SpecialUserlogin.php which is available at:
http://netwiki.macalester.edu:8080/index.php/Public_Pages
We found that most users do not expect a case-sensitive username, and so would
inadvertently create multiple accounts (e.g. USER and user) and get confused.
While I realize Unix user logins are case-sensitive, the trend today is toward an LDAP
backend directory to serve multiple systems as an authenticator and user database. LDAP
isn't case sensitive with usernames, and maybe MediaWiki shouldn't be, either?
Anyway, for your consideration. Thanks for the great software!
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement