Jeff Clowser <jclowser <at> unitedmessaging.com> writes: > > > > > Do you need usernames to be case sensative, or do you need them to be > all lowercase? Very different thing - if you need them to be case > sensative, you can do one of the things I mentioned above. If you need > them to be strictly lower case, whatever you use to create users in the > directory needs to validate usernames and only put in usernames that are > lower case - i.e. create a custom web front end in php, perl, etc for > managing users. When it creates new user entries, have that interface > lowercase usernames before putting it in the uid attribute and creating > the user entry. > > Can you expand a bit on what your application is or why it needs this? > What about your application, environment, etc is driving a need for case > sensative uid's or lowercase uids. Is it an issue of syncing with > another environment that has these requirements/format, etc? If we knew > more about what is driving this need, we may be able to provide more > useful advise or suggestions. > > - Jeff > > We have some internal security applications which have issues if a user logs in with incorrect case in their username. The site policy dictates the the usernames must all be lowercase, but if a user types it incorrectly an adds a uppercase instead of lowercase they have issues. I think a unique (non-standard) use of the attribute should do what I need. I will look at the 00core.ldif as you have suggested. thank you very much
