2016-02-25 07:10 AEST by Glen Starrett - The following shows case sensitive behavior for the username field in the passwd
file:

• Make my 'admin' account a cvsadmin by adding self to the CVSROOT\admin file:
		C:\Users\Admin\Documents\test\cvsroot>type "\ProgramData\March
Hare\myrepo\CVSROOT"\admin
		admin
		w2012r2x64\admin
• Add self to passwd:
	C:\Users\Admin\Documents\test\cvsroot>cvs passwd -a admin
	Adding user admin@localhost
	New Password:
	Verify Password:
	
	C:\Users\Admin\Documents\test\cvsroot>type "\ProgramData\March
Hare\myrepo\CVSROOT\passwd"
	admin:
	
• Altered config, commit:
	C:\Users\Admin\Documents\test\cvsroot>cvs diff config
	Index: config
	===================================================================
	RCS file: /myrepo/cvsroot/config,v
	retrieving revision 1.1
	diff -r1.1 config
	2a3
	> SystemAuth=no
	
	C:\Users\Admin\Documents\test\cvsroot>cvs ci -m "sys auth = no"
	cvs commit: Examining .
	Checking in config;
	/myrepo/cvsroot/config,v  <--  config
	new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
	done
	cvsntsrv server: Rebuilding administrative file database
	
• Uh oh:
	C:\Users\Admin\Documents\test\cvsroot>cvs ls
	cvs [ls aborted]: no such user Admin in CVSROOT/passwd
	
• Edit it and retry:
	C:\Users\Admin\Documents\test\cvsroot>notepad "\ProgramData\March
Hare\myrepo\CVSROOT\passwd"
	
	C:\Users\Admin\Documents\test\cvsroot>type "\ProgramData\March
Hare\myrepo\CVSROOT\passwd"
	Admin:
	
	C:\Users\Admin\Documents\test\cvsroot>cvs ls
	Listing modules on server
	
	CVSROOT
	abc
	

OK, so the Admin account is working but passwd is case sensitive ?!?!?!  THAT's
a bug!

2016-02-25 07:12 AEST by Glen Starrett - Created an attachment (id=2949)
Diagnostics

Server version: 2.8.01 (Soolin) Build 5876
OS Version: Windows Server 2012 x64 [6.2.9200] 

2016-02-25 17:22 AEST by Arthur Barrett - Yes it is, not a bug:
http://www.cvsnt.org/pipermail/cvsnt/2006-April/024627.html

2017-07-19 11:39 AEST by Arthur Barrett - Probably bug 7178 is a dup - but it also highlights that this case sensitivity affects the domain portion of the 
username if you have added them as "DOMAIN\USERNAME".

Waiting on confirmation to mark bug 7178 a dup of Bug 6989.

Also of interest are:
Bug 5052: preserve case with WinBind auth on Linux/Unix
Bug 5196: Support for case insensitive usernames on Unix


So the key question is whether we need a 'global' option to enable case insensitive usernames/passwords 
(which I think will be difficult to get right on linux/unix), or two options: case insensitive on unix/linux and case 
insensitive on windows.

In a 'pure' windows environment the 'case insensitive' option is sensible - but it needs to be carefully coded 
so that it only applies to 'server' processes, or else people using windows clients to access a linux/unix server 
will get odd behaviour.

We probably should have a separate bug just for displaying a 'warning' when you use cvs passwd that it is 
case sensitive.

2018-08-18 01:03 AEST by Glen Starrett - We have a customer who has been working on a Windows domain migration that is
affected by this issue.  A resolution could have saved some subtle trouble with
this transition.