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Re: Windows Username Case - No Server

From: Kevin Grover <kevin_at_kevingrover.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:13:11 -0800

I have not seen this. I _have_ seen the behavior I talked about: Windows
keeps whatever case the user enters.

For windows functions, I guess it does not matter, but it does matter to the
Subversion libraries: different cases are treated as different users.

I, hastily, called this a Windows bug. I should probably just have called
it a poor design decision.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Michael <mchlwvr614_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I am pretty sure that the user types in "myuser" or whatever the
> username as all lower case and windows incorrectly reports the current
> user as "MYuser". I think its Microsoft related and not Subversion or
> TSVN, but figured I would post to see if anyone else has seen this or
> knows how to fix it.
>
> When using the file protocol how does TortoiseSVN get the username
> from windows?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
> On Feb 16, 12:17 pm, Kevin Grover <ke..._at_kevingrover.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Michael <mchlwvr..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have had a couple users report problems with their username case
> > > when accessing a local repository via the file:///. They will get a
> > > lock on a file and then the next day when trying to commit they will
> > > get a message stating the user JDoe has the file locked when tortoise
> > > currently thinks the username is jdoe. I am wondering what conditions
> > > windows reports the username as JDoe vs. jdoe? We do have a server
> > > setup with apache where we have remedied this using the correct
> > > properties. I am specifically looking for answers using local, file
> > > access.
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
> >
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> > I've noticed, that on Windows (at least XP) systems in which you type a
> > username at login, Windows KEEPS whatever case you type in at login.
> >
> > So, if you're user name is "myuser" and you type "MyUsEr", it's legal and
> > that's the way it's reported for that session.
> >
> > I think this is a bug in Windows.
> >
> > I first noticed this when I accidentally capitalized a letter after and _
> > (which needs the shift key), and my authentications failed.
> >
> > This affects all Subversion clients (not just TSVN)
> >
> > - Kevin
> >
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