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|    Wilfred van Velzen to Alan Ianson    |
|    Re: Pssword ord ord case insensitive or     |
|    22 Apr 20 11:26:58    |
      TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815       RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes       TZUTC: 0200       CHRS: UTF-8 2       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221       MSGID: 2:280/464 5ea00e2f       REPLY: 1:153/757 5ea005d5       Hi Alan,              On 2020-04-22 01:47:08, you wrote to me:               WV>> Why a PITA?               AI> I've had issues with session passwords because folks has told me to use a        AI> password (lower case) but they enter it in their setup in upper case.        AI> That's a PITA.              Well there is no cure for stupidity. ;)              But that's not a reason to limit security and do case insensitive compares on       passwords.               WV>> You have to configure it once. Check that it works and be done with        WV>> it...               AI> As long as folks understand the need for this at setup it should pose no        AI> problems.              That's what I mean...              Bye, Wilfred.              --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815        * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 103/705 120/340 601 154/10 203/0 221/0       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/426 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 288/100 292/854 8125 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1       PATH: 280/464 229/426           |
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