USERID case sensitiveness on ADS server? Any solution at Kerberos

Jeffrey Altman jaltman2 at nyc.rr.com
Thu Mar 9 13:56:51 EST 2006


Surendra Babu wrote:

> Solution#1: We can change the Server settings: make all of the USERIDs are
> small case. So all of them will be in UNIQUE format. BUt the probelm is: we
> have amy users in terms of 1000s. So this is not a feasible sloution.
> 
> COuld you please provide me some solution in such a way that, Kerbeors
> client should ignore the case sensitiveness of USERID.
> 
> Please let me know your thoughts ASAP. Thanks a lot.
> 
> Regards,
> -Surendra

Kerberos is case sensitive.  That is how it is.  If you know that
the userids are always uppercase or lowercase you can try one and
if that doesn't work then try the other.  This would be easy to do
programatically.

Jeffrey Altman





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