topic case sensitive usernames &quot;john_doe&quot; not &quot;John_Doe&quot; in Alfresco Forum https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/case-sensitive-usernames-quot-john-doe-quot-not-quot-john-doe/m-p/46882#M18579 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><STRONG>Hello Alfresco Users!</STRONG></P><P></P><P>I am currently using the latest version of Alfresco Community Edition.</P><P>When I or another user invites an external user, they may sometimes use capital letters for the first letter of the firstname and surname.</P><P></P><P>Which you think is correct right<STRONG>?</STRONG></P><P></P><P>If I was inviting John Doe to my Alfresco I would type his details into the Add External Users box like this:</P><P></P><P><STRONG>First Name:</STRONG> John</P><P><STRONG>Last Name:</STRONG> Doe</P><P><STRONG>Email:</STRONG> <A href="mailto:john.doe@helpme.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">john.doe@helpme.com</A></P><P></P><P>But for some reason, his username is generated case sensitive using the details that I have entered so he would have to log in as John_Doe not john_doe. This is a pain!</P><P></P><P>and sometimes, our users typo the first and lastname and do something like jOhn_Doe or john_Doe and then thats an even bigger pain.</P><P></P><P>How do I fix this? I have followed the case insensitive how tos on the Alfresco Docs but that doesnt seem to work</P><P>I am using PostgresQL with this</P><P>Can this be fixed permanently? Can I correct existing users?</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance,</P><P>RKEN</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 May 2018 11:49:40 GMT rken 2018-05-15T11:49:40Z case sensitive usernames "john_doe" not "John_Doe" https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/case-sensitive-usernames-quot-john-doe-quot-not-quot-john-doe/m-p/46882#M18579 Hello Alfresco Users!I am currently using the latest version of Alfresco Community Edition.When I or another user invites an external user, they may sometimes use capital letters for the first letter of the firstname and surname.Which you think is correct right?If I was inviting John Doe to my Alfre Tue, 15 May 2018 11:49:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/case-sensitive-usernames-quot-john-doe-quot-not-quot-john-doe/m-p/46882#M18579 rken 2018-05-15T11:49:40Z Re: case sensitive usernames "john_doe" not "John_Doe" https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/case-sensitive-usernames-quot-john-doe-quot-not-quot-john-doe/m-p/46883#M18580 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I didn't heard about this before.</P><P></P><P>NameBasedUserNameGenerator class (<A href="https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/d8f828324419f101d6e1f7a19020864d801b3b64/src/main/java/org/alfresco/repo/security/authentication/NameBasedUserNameGenerator.java" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/d8f828324419f101d6e1f7a19020864d801b3b64/src/main/java/org/alfresco/repo/security/authentication/NameBasedUserNameGenerator.java</A>) is using email account to provide user name. But lower case is applied in every case.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 May 2018 10:09:06 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/case-sensitive-usernames-quot-john-doe-quot-not-quot-john-doe/m-p/46883#M18580 angelborroy 2018-05-16T10:09:06Z Re: case sensitive usernames "john_doe" not "John_Doe" https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/case-sensitive-usernames-quot-john-doe-quot-not-quot-john-doe/m-p/46884#M18581 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Angel, </P><P>Thanks for your response</P><P></P><P>That file shows the username would be lastname_firstname however when you get an external user invite it is definitely firstname_lastname and is case sensitive for example one of our external users has to log in with "Mary_jones"</P><P></P><P>Is that file being ignored?</P><P>How would you go about troubleshooting this?</P><P></P><P>Our internal users auth using our Active Directory and therefore the usernames are whatever is used on the AD but any Alfresco Created users seem to be case sensitive unfortunately.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 May 2018 10:46:07 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/case-sensitive-usernames-quot-john-doe-quot-not-quot-john-doe/m-p/46884#M18581 rken 2018-05-16T10:46:07Z Re: case sensitive usernames "john_doe" not "John_Doe" https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/case-sensitive-usernames-quot-john-doe-quot-not-quot-john-doe/m-p/46885#M18582 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, the format is "firstname_lastname". It's overridden by Spring configuration.</P><P></P><P><A href="https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/27d9cd63ab141f67b0fc7f493ac937f50bb51705/src/main/resources/alfresco/invitation-service-context.xml#L22" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/27d9cd63ab141f67b0fc7f493ac937f50bb51705/src/main/resources/alfresco/invitation-service-context.xml#L22</A></P><P></P><P><A href="https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/27d9cd63ab141f67b0fc7f493ac937f50bb51705/src/main/resources/alfresco/authentication-services-context.xml#L664" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/27d9cd63ab141f67b0fc7f493ac937f50bb51705/src/main/resources/alfresco/authentication-services-context.xml#L664</A></P><P></P><P><A href="https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/27d9cd63ab141f67b0fc7f493ac937f50bb51705/src/main/resources/alfresco/authentication-services-context.xml#L649" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/27d9cd63ab141f67b0fc7f493ac937f50bb51705/src/main/resources/alfresco/authentication-services-context.xml#L649</A></P><P></P><P>If you didn't overwrote this beans, this is default configuration.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 May 2018 11:20:14 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/case-sensitive-usernames-quot-john-doe-quot-not-quot-john-doe/m-p/46885#M18582 angelborroy 2018-05-16T11:20:14Z