Can't change permissions if userid is all uppercase

[anonymous]

If you're using smart cards and your Common Name (CN) is somthing like SMITH.JOHN.1234567890, then trying to make this user an admin will fail:

# trac-admin . permission add SMITH.JOHN.1234567890 TRAC_ADMIN
# Error: All upper-cased tokens are reserved for permission names

This topic is diccussed in ticket #2790 where it was decided that it was an error if the userid was all uppercase.

It works if you use the Distinguished Name (DN):

# trac-admin . permission add "/C=US/O=Acme Co./OU=DoD/OU=PKI/OU=EMPLOYEE/CN=SMITH.JOHN.1234567890" TRAC_ADMIN

Is there a fix or work around for this?

[anonymous]

Looks like maybe I can remove the code that was added in Changeset 9593.

[Carsten Klein <carsten.klein@…>]

+1 for removing this restriction

[osimons]

Setting [trac] ignore_auth_case = true in trac.ini should lower-case all usernames, which should be a useable workaround as Trac will only ever see lower-case versions of the CN.

[Christian Boos]

PatchWelcome (with a commit log showing that the reasons why the test was introduced are well understood and why this is no longer a concern).

[Ryan J Ollos]

Closing since we have a workaround and I doubt we would want to allow all-uppercase usernames.