Re: Previous topic - User can choose public name, even if already taken

Charles Capps said:
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The fix for this has landed in rv201. If you'd like to patch your own boards - find the following line in ubb_profile.cgi:

&CheckForExistingNames($lc_new_public_name, 1);

And replace it with:

&CheckForExistingNames($lc_new_public_name);
I've applied this patch but have since encountered another problem:

Let's say, for example, I already have a member with the public name John. A new member has just joined calling themselves john. Could another next join calling themselves JOHN or JoHn?

This is starting to get confusing. Is this the designed behaviour, or a bug in which the check for existing names is incorrectly case-sensitive?

I've looked at pdnlist.cgi and both versions of the name are there.

I'd much prefer the case to be ignored to prevent having half a dozen John's of one form or another on my board.

Regards