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- Subject: Forcing lowercase usernames
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- From: "Jim Lovsey, MEC, (614)221-8005" <lovsey@mec.ohio.gov>
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 23:37:18 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Metropolitan Educational Council
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- I recently setup a uucp connection to a Unix host that is really picky
- about case. I added a lowercase rewrite rule for them, something like:
-
- unixhost $u@unixhost
-
- I swapped a few test messages with them and all was well. Since the
- people that really wanted to exchange mail with the new Unix host are my
- A1 neighbors, I logged into their machine and sent a test message from
- All-in-One. PMDF-MR did it's magic and things looked fine. A few minutes
- later, bounced message. I looked at the headers and low-and-behold, it
- read USER@unixhost. Message Router evidently feels it has a civic duty
- to uppercase everything. Since I had foolishly already told the A1 people
- that this was working, I needed to fix this up in a hurry, so I added the
- unixhost uppercase usernames to the general database and substituted the
- lowercase name. They only have five or six users so this was easy to do.
- I had entries like:
-
- FRED fred
- BOB bob
-
- I then changed the rewrite rule to:
-
- unixhost $($u)@unixhost
-
- This worked like a charm but there must be a better way to handle this.
- Suggestions?
-
- Thanks,
-
- --- Jim
-
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