Hello,

What was the reason for this change? What does it improve or fix?

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 3:00 PM Andrew Otto <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Great!  Is this just for Wikitech itself or all ldap/wikitech
> authentication?
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 7:56 PM Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > A change was deployed to the Wikitech config 2019-04-15T23:16 UTC
> > which prevents users from logging into the wiki with a username that
> > differs in case from the 'cn' value for their developer account.
> >
> > This change is not expected to cause problems for most users, but
> > there may be some people who have historically entered a username with
> > mismatched case (for example "bryandavis" instead of "BryanDavis") and
> > relied on MediaWiki and the LdapAuthentication plugin figuring things
> > out. This will no longer happen automatically. These users will need
> > to update their password managers (or brains if they are not using a
> > password manager) to supply the username with correct casing.
> >
> > The "wrongpassword" error message on Wikitech has been updated with a
> > local override to help people discover this problem. See
> > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165795> for more details.
> >
> > Bryan, on behalf of the Cloud Services team
> > --
> > Bryan Davis              Wikimedia Foundation    <[email protected]>
> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical Engagement    Boise, ID USA
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