Re: [WWdevel] relative speed of sql_single and gdbm

[John J. <jj...@as...>]

Arnold Pizer wrote:

> At 12:00 PM 3/17/2005, John Jones wrote:
>
>> If we don't care about supporting users/sets which differ only in 
>> case, then there is one bug to be re-patched (when producing hardcopy 
>> for a student, webwork checks that the student's user_id matches case 
>> sensitively with the user_id of the hardcopy being requested - this 
>> should be changed to insensitively so that students who change 
>> capitalization of their user_id on login can still get hardcopy).
>
>
> Another option might be to require the login to be case sensitive 
> (i.e. matches whatever the initial login was set up as).  We should 
> probably do whatever is most standard. 

I thought of that, but that puts the change in Authen.pm.  I didn't look 
and I wasn't sure if that would mean the case checking on the login name 
would happen every time a page is generated.  Looking at it now, I 
suppose it could be just checked when verifying passwords since that 
only happens on login.

John