Re: Case of login relevant?

2000-12-11 Thread kmself
on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:13:58PM +, sena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 11/12/2000 at 12:28 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Yes. UserIDs are case sensitive, except in the special case of a userid > > entered in uppercase only, in which case the system assumes that your > > tty cannot

Re: Case of login relevant?

2000-12-11 Thread sena
On 11/12/2000 at 12:28 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Yes. UserIDs are case sensitive, except in the special case of a userid > entered in uppercase only, in which case the system assumes that your > tty cannot use lowercase characters. > Is there any documentation that describes the behavi

Re: Case of login relevant?

2000-12-11 Thread kmself
on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:42:51AM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, > > this is to raise the issue whether the case of the login (username, user-ID) > is relevant on Linux. Yes. UserIDs are case sensitive, except in the special case of a userid entered in uppercas

Re: Case of login relevant?

2000-12-11 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:42:51 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >I today observed that ipopd 4.7c-1 does NOT pay attention to the case of the >login, but that proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2 DOES honor the case of the login (this is >on a pure Debian 2.2 system.) Please disregard this message. It turned out

Case of login relevant?

2000-12-11 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, this is to raise the issue whether the case of the login (username, user-ID) is relevant on Linux. I today observed that ipopd 4.7c-1 does NOT pay attention to the case of the login, but that proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2 DOES honor the case of the login (this is on a pure Debian 2.2 system.)