Hello Aaron -


At 9:18 -0800 01/1/17, Aaron Nabil wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Aaron Nabil wrote:
>>  Is this code in Handler.pm doing the most reasonable thing?  The way it
>>  works now, if you have a rewrite username that lowercases, people can
>>  log in muliple times with username, Username, USERNAME, etc.
>
>Looks like you can't win either way. 
>
>If you don't use OriginalUserName, session online checks will fail (the
>ones that rely on names instead of session ID's) since they need to match
>what the NAS supplied.
>
>I just took a peek on one of my TC chassis, I have a user logged in as
>"Firstname Lastname          " (except with lots more spaces at the
>end) and my two rewrite rules manage to coerce that to his real login of
>firstnamelastname on our system!  With our rewriting you could simply
>add a space to your login and create a unique session. :(
>

This is why I always recommend that you reject usernames containing 
"illegal" characters immediately - just say "No"......

regards

Hugh

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