[katello-devel] Case sensitive behavior in katello

[Eric Sammons]

> 
> IMHO - usernames should not be case sensitive, but I could also see
> where an MS Active Directory environment in play it may be important
> to
> not lowercase everything for a user authentication to successfully
> occur.
> 
> In general, I feel that we shouldn't allow Dev, DEV, dev to be
> different... but, with how we have things today, what is the negative
> user experience/feedback to say we should change?
>   - I'd prefer to not change things, just to change it into what we
> think is more correct.
>    - Upgrades would be a blast to try and force upgrade folks from
>    Dev,
> DEV, dev to dev, dev1, dev2.
> 
> Cliff
> 

I would consider this change to be a proactive change.  It is only a matter of time before this could negatively impact a customer and it also takes away from the quality of the product we are delivering.

Also, it should be noted, what I am suggesting here is based on a couple of bugs that others in QE have opened.  The suggestion is a check to verify that when you create a new "abc" that it and no other incarnation of it exists.

Again, this is more of a design and proactive change - we don't have a large enough customer base yet to where I would expect someone to be complaining about this.