564199 - server should lowercase account names when creating users

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Cloud Services Graveyard :: Server: Sync, defect)

Description

[Hans]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

When I try to login to my personal Weave server (where my username is "Spone"), Weave Sync fails to log me in.
I changed my username to "spone" and it works well.
I don't know if this is the Weave Sync add-on that sanitizes the login to lowercase, or if the Weave Server is deficient.

My server runs Linux. My PC runs Windows 7.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to login to your Weave server using Weave Sync with a case-sensitive username. It fails.
2. change your username on your server to remove uppercase
3. try to login with the news lowercase username. It works.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We lowercase all user names in the client, by design.  Because Weave relies on URL syntax, it causes problems.

https://<server>/1.0/mconnor/storage/meta/global
vs.
https://<server>/1.0/Mconnor/storage/meta/global

Moving this to Server, I think the LDAP version handles this, but maybe the minimal server create script doesn't?

Comment 2

[Toby Elliott [:telliott]]

Somehow, this bug wasn't showing right in my queue. We did this some time ago - the server automatically lowercases all usernames in the url and the basic-auth before doing anything with them