On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Ido Ran <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, it should not be forced - I think it should be the default. > If you know what you are doing and have a good reason to use case-sensitive > usernames then go ahead, but for the rest of us, it should be as simple as > it can. > How Couch people say - case-insensitive username is more relaxing :) >
CouchDB uses document lookups to find users, so doing this would involve making docids case-insensitive, which isn't gonna happen. The good answer would be to add whatever iPhone tags you have to add to keep it from doing that stupid auto-shift key thing on login forms. I'd love a patch for that against this file: http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/blob/master/vendor/evently/account/loginForm/mustache.html Chris > Ido > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The question is whether CouchDB should force everyone to do that or >> not. I think it should not. >> >> B. >> >> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Tyler Gillies <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I think case insensitivity is good, prevents thing from getting >> complicated >> > with two users one named tyler and one named Tyler >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Randall Leeds <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> > >> >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:13, Ido Ran <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Unix, Linux, Windows, Gmail, Skype >> >> > >> >> > Any application I can think of treat username in case-insensitive way. >> >> >> >> Really??? >> >> >> >> rle...@randalltor:~$ sudo -u Rleeds >> >> sudo: unknown user: Rleeds >> >> rle...@randalltor:~$ >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > http://www.readwriteweb.com/about#tyler >> > >> > Ask me anything <http://tumble.pdxbrain.com/ask>! >> > >> > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
