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Re: Version 2.3.0 - THANK YOU (and one request)

Author markphip
Full name Mark Phippard
Date 2012-03-05 19:58:39 PST
Message On Mar 5, 2012, at 7:42 PM, Joe Smith wrote:

> The new option to have the server convert usernames to lowercase prior to comparing to access rules is a LIFE SAVER.
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> We have struggled with this issue for some time. We have integrated our Collabnet SVN Edge stack into our Windows domain...allowing folks to use their domain credentials to authenticate. Unfortunately, team members routinely use varying case for the domain name portion of their username. e.g.,
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> ourdomain\jdoe
> OURDOMAIN\jdoe
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> ...and if the case does not match the case of their username specified in our access rules, they are out of luck.
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> We have now configured the server to convert usernames to lowercase and have specified all of the access rules in lowercase...and users can now enter their username in any case that they so choose. Happy day.
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> THE CONSEQUENCE:
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> Our access logs and SVN history logs now contain mixed case usernames.
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> e.g., oURdoMaiN\jDoE
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> MY SUGGESTION:
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> Either fully convert the entered value to lowercase for ALL server-side operations or at least provide a configurable option that allows the admin to optionally instruct the server to do so.

SVN stores the author name based on the username that Apache provides it. You could install a post-commit hook that changes the svn:author revision property to all lower case after the commit.

What are you using for authentication? The only thing I am aware of that puts the Domain name in the user field is SSPI and we do not configure that in SVN Edge. I guess maybe it is possible to configure LDAP that way, but I have never seen it. If you have manually overridden the httpd.conf to use SSPI, it has an Apache directive you can use to normalize the username to lower case.

Mark

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Version 2.3.0 - THANK YOU (and one request) jsmith20170 Joe Smith 2012-03-05 16:42:28 PST
     Re: Version 2.3.0 - THANK YOU (and one request) markphip Mark Phippard 2012-03-05 19:58:39 PST
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