Oh boy, lack of sleep made me get my examples mixed up a little.
Obviously to any half awake mind, the 'Neil' with an L and the 'NeiI' with an i example is irrelevant. However, a 'neil' 'Neil' situation could sitll arise, with a per user slug prone to problems in that case. Lesson for today : sleep as much as you need to before attemping to think ;) Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > checkout/order > While I was writing test cases for my upcoming website, I noticed I that > the contrib.auth module will happily make a user called Mike and user > called mike and treat them as two separate users. > > Are there reasons for this? I patched my installation of django so that > usernames were not case sensitive. My reasoning was that someone could > register as Neil (lowercase L at the end) and build up a reputation on > the site. Then someone could register as NeiI (uppercase i at the end) > and impersonate the first user, as in many fonts the glyphs for > lowercase L and uppercase i are identical. > > Also, giving users a slug using the standard django slugify becomes > problematic if you have Neil and neil. Which one does the slug "neil" > refer to? > > Cheers, > > MikeH > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
