Ipad auto-capitalization of username

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Tue Aug 23 18:33:19 BST 2011


On 8/23/11 1:14 PM, "Peter Schober" <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:

>* McDermott, Michael <michael_mcdermott at brown.edu> [2011-08-23 17:33]:
>> I haven't seen anything on the user list about this, but our Ipad/Iphone
>> users are complaining that "Shib" capitalizes their case sensitive
>>username
>> when they login and wonder how to "fix" Shib.
>
>You don't mention what the actual problem is (authentication failing?
>JAAS?)

Kerberos would fail certainly unless you add code to lower case the
principal (assuming you use lower case principals).

I have code like that in mine, but this is a convenient trick to fix the
problem.

-- Scott



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