Making case sensitive the login

[theman80]

Hello

When a user try to login from loginbox on top of the page,
if he/she writes "username1" he/she can login or he/she writes "UseRNAmE1" he/she can login again.

How can we make the username case sensitive?
So, user must enter EXACT username on loginbox.

Note: Same thing happens when a user try to login from "http://...com/member.php?action=login".

Thank you.

[theman80]

Anyone help me on this?

[DrPoodle]

One way would be to have two separate username columns in the database, one of which would be the actual username that is seen on the forum, and the other would be a MD5 hash of that username to be used in login.

You would have to change the login script to accommodate the new column and the hash though...

[judel]

Putting aside the extra recoding that would be needed to do this, why would you even want it? Your members might forget if they capitalized their username or not. Why would you want to risk upsetting them? Just curious as to why this would be important!

[zaher1988]

I agree with Judel.. it doesn't make sense.
If your username int THEman you can login with both THEMAN and theman or whatever...

[judel]

Unless you would want two different members to have THEman and THEMAN...but again, that doesn't make sense! It would also be downright confusing who is posting! LOL

[Jag100]

Unless you would want two different members to have THEman and THEMAN...but again, that doesn't make sense! It would also be downright confusing who is posting! LOL

This is only useful if there are ALOT of users and you need a both upper and lower case usernames