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Andras Balogh - case sensiteive user name only in hardcopy

$inactiveTopic$ case sensiteive user name only in hardcopy

topic started 8/30/2005; 9:28:29 PM
last post 8/30/2005; 10:09:19 PM

$user$ Andras Balogh - case sensiteive user name only in hardcopy $blueArrow$
8/30/2005; 9:28:29 PM (reads: 325, responses: 1)

In WeBWorK 2.1 the user name is not case sensitive at log in, but it is when users try to generate hardcopies.

I understand the second part with case sensitive file names under unix, but I don't know where the "insensitiviy" comes from at log in and if it is possible to turn it off.

Andras

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$user$ John Jones - Re: case sensiteive user name only in hardcopy $blueArrow$
8/30/2005; 10:09:19 PM (reads: 427, responses: 0)

Hi,

I just tested loging in on a cvs copy of webwork and it was case-sensitive, which it is the way it is supposed to be. It seems this bug was fixed somewhere along the line. I think it had to do with the structure of the mysql database, so just upgrading webwork may not help - you would also have to adjust the databases.

There was a workaround, but it caused database access to slow down considerably in large classes.

John

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