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Web client does not look up email for user name with capitalized letters #18227
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@blizzz Can you have a look please? |
IIRC accepting user names on login with a capital letter is a UX feature with mobile phones in mind. Now I assume we just don't do it when looking up email for password reset. I understand this is confusing, and we better go for consistency. I don't think you have reservations @LukasReschke ? |
This is the ever returning nightmare of case insensitive username. The proper solution is to finally introduce the accounts table which uses a proper integer based id. see #19053 (comment) |
I'd like to move this to 9.0 |
@cmonteroluque @karlitschek |
would be fine for me. @MTRichards what do you think? |
yes, workaround: use other letters. |
it is. I share the dislike for this behavior, though... Shouldn't even be an issue with mobile phones if the right keyboard is used. Fine, let's hope for 9.0 |
I was being a tad flip, but yes - not the best behavior, just trimming to the critical ones for the here and now. |
It still is, moving to 9.2 |
In newer versions of OC the error message is actually hidden to prevent hackers trying different user names to guess them. This makes this issue even worse because now the user will see a message "email sent" even if none is sent, then they'll wait longer and see they got nothing before trying again, not even having a clue that it was a problem with the user name. |
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I can log in to the web client (example.com/owncloud) and see my files using user name "Username", or I can use "username" (note the difference in capitalization) and both capitalizations log me in as the same user. However, when I click the link to reset password via email, user name "username" works, and user name "Username" returns the error dialog "Couldn't send reset email because there is no email address for this username. Please contact your administrator." The user name is listed on the admin page in all lower-case, as "username". This happens with every account I have on my server.
This was confusing at first, as I was always attempting to log in with a capitalized first letter, and receiving the error message.
I am using ownCloud 8.1.1.
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