[1723] in Moira
Re: Case sensitivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Dec 29 02:23:10 2000
Message-Id: <200012290723.CAA06655@Bearing-An-Hourglass.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU, dspace-dev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:23:29 GMT."
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 02:23:00 -0500
> At an Athena workstation Jerry can log in with any capitalization of his
> uname "Saltzer" (ie saLTZer).
Have you actually seen him do that, I would be rather surprised if it
actually did work, since last I checked kerberos was case sensitive.
> He can also receive email with any capitalization of that uname.
Yeah, sendmail happens to treat things case insensitively, that
doesn't mean they actually are.
Jonathon
