146631 - Case sensitive profile names

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, enhancement)

Description

[Oliver Rohloff]

i used to install mozilla (1.0 RC1) under w2k (terminalserver). i created
seferal profiles (all lowercase). i created a link an the desktop of the 
desktop (all User) with the target "....mozilla.exe -P %USERNAME%". the problem
is, user of w2k can log in with differen username, for example "mike" is the same
like "Mike" or "MIKE". mozilla notice each of them as a different profile and
starts with the profile-manager. but the w2k user shouldn't select its profile.
is it possible to change mozilla to ignore upper or lowercase?

thanks a lot
oliver rohloff

some additional information
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 149428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

I can see the utility in this but:

1. Making profile names case-insensitive internally and finding and changing all
code which compares profile names is a huge task, and problematic if people have
profiles called "Mike" and "MIKE" in their profile registry. Not a realistic option.
2. If just the code which handles -P was made case-insensitive, what if you had
profiles named "Mike" and "MIKE?" An inconsistency between the internal
case-sensitivity and the handling of -P seems dangerous.

Comment 3

[Todd]

Actually, were I get into trouble is "-P Tony" versus "-P tony".
Very seldom do I get "-P TONY" (all caps) -- as the log on process
resets the cap lock key.

And, the users tend to /freak/ when they get the profile manager. :-(

--Tony

Comment 4

[Oliver Rohloff]

...and another problem comes with it. Some of the user create with "drag ´n´
drop" an URL-icon on the desktop. By clicking on the icon (with no started
mozilla) i see the profile manager again! This is not usefull, isn´t it?
-- Oli

Comment 5

[Oliver Rohloff]

Once again. Whats going on with the "default User". What i undestand under
"default user" is, i use a profilename that doesn´t exist or none and in this
case the "default user" will be used. But this is not true. Neither a wrong nor
a not existing user name forces mozilla to use the "default user". So why does
this profile exist?

-- Oli