Added isCaseSensitive() to auth backends FS#1657

Ignore-this: 3591e5a36126c72bd9b931e4aa832da8

darcs-hash:20091115141725-7ad00-7c2fc662d1999731660673d05299c4f357b797b3.gz

4 files changed, 33 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/inc/auth/ad.class.php b/inc/auth/ad.class.php
index 8eb8b06d8..aac17f33c 100644
--- a/inc/auth/ad.class.php
+++ b/inc/auth/ad.class.php
@@ -178,6 +178,13 @@ class auth_ad extends auth_basic {
     }
 
     /**
+     * Most values in LDAP are case-insensitive
+     */
+    function isCaseSensitive(){
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Initialize the AdLDAP library and connect to the server
      */
     function _init(){
diff --git a/inc/auth/basic.class.php b/inc/auth/basic.class.php
index a1f77dea5..c08422488 100644
--- a/inc/auth/basic.class.php
+++ b/inc/auth/basic.class.php
@@ -323,15 +323,23 @@ class auth_basic {
   }
 
   /**
+   * Return case sensitivity of the backend [OPTIONAL]
+   *
+   * When your backend is caseinsensitive (eg. you can login with USER and
+   * user) then you need to overwrite this method and return false
+   */
+  function isCaseSensitive(){
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  /**
    * Sanitize a given username [OPTIONAL]
    *
    * This function is applied to any user name that is given to
    * the backend and should also be applied to any user name within
    * the backend before returning it somewhere.
    *
-   * This should be used to enforce username restrictions. Eg. when
-   * the backend is case insensitive all usernames should be lowercased
-   * here.
+   * This should be used to enforce username restrictions.
    *
    * @author Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
    * @param string $user - username
@@ -348,9 +356,7 @@ class auth_basic {
    * the backend and should also be applied to any groupname within
    * the backend before returning it somewhere.
    *
-   * This should be used to enforce groupname restrictions. Eg. when
-   * the backend is case insensitive all groupames should be lowercased
-   * here.
+   * This should be used to enforce groupname restrictions.
    *
    * Groupnames are to be passed without a leading '@' here.
    *
diff --git a/inc/auth/ldap.class.php b/inc/auth/ldap.class.php
index 8eb797a11..c51924135 100644
--- a/inc/auth/ldap.class.php
+++ b/inc/auth/ldap.class.php
@@ -248,6 +248,13 @@ class auth_ldap extends auth_basic {
     }
 
     /**
+     * Most values in LDAP are case-insensitive
+     */
+    function isCaseSensitive(){
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Make LDAP filter strings.
      *
      * Used by auth_getUserData to make the filter
diff --git a/inc/auth/mysql.class.php b/inc/auth/mysql.class.php
index 26cfb85d9..b1c6a3a52 100644
--- a/inc/auth/mysql.class.php
+++ b/inc/auth/mysql.class.php
@@ -401,6 +401,13 @@ class auth_mysql extends auth_basic {
     }
 
     /**
+     * MySQL is case-insensitive
+     */
+    function isCaseSensitive(){
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Adds a user to a group.
      *
      * If $force is set to '1' non existing groups would be created.