Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Hi,

Sergiy Zhuk wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Olivier Salaun wrote:
> 
> > > 1. why do you make passwords case insensitive ?
> >
> > We had many problems with our subscribers, concerning case-sensitive 
> > passwords.
> > Sympa should not lowecase it before DB insertion though ; I just changed 
> > this.
> 
> can you make that a config option ?

We've done it :
http://listes.cru.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/sympa/wwsympa/wwsympa.fcgi

BUT because Sympa used to lowercase passwords before insertion in DB,
you could have password checking problems if you set it case-sensitive.

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités