[mapguide-internals] Do mapguide usernames really need to be case sensitive?

[Steve Dang]

MapGuide does cache username entries.

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From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 5:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Do mapguide usernames really need to be case sensitive?

does Mapguide cache these xml entries, or is there an xml read on every request?

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Steve Dang <steve.dang at autodesk.com> wrote:
> Hi Zac,
>
>  I remember we have case-sensitive usernames (and all others like resource IDs, etc.) because XML is case-sensitive (and so Linux :). We could remove this restriction though it would introduce some overheads for using case-insensitive XPath/XQueries.
>
>  Steve.
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer
>  Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:11 PM
>  To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
>  Subject: [mapguide-internals] Do mapguide usernames really need to be case sensitive?
>
>  Just wondering, falling back on the previous discussion about
>  security, was there a
>  reason for having case sensitive usernames?
>
>   hooking into other authentication sources like system accounts or
>  ldap is that going to be an issue?
>
>  it's possible to have both administrator and Administrator as seperate user ids
>
>  z
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