A simple fix for this is to normalize to lowercase names during registration and login, then the user can put in whatever mixed case they want.
-Damien On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Chris Anderson wrote: > 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
