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Hi. I'm not sure what exactly the situation is with forum modifications, except that I have the impression that scott is involved with the implementation of things. Anyway, I just had one small quibble, which is that I don't like having to type my ID in case sensitiveky. I like it to appear as "Valkenar" but I always forget, and type "valkenar" Obviously this is really no big deal, but unless there's some particular reason for being case sensitive (other than that it's slightly less efficient to do case insensitive comparisons) I was wondering if it could possibly be made otherwise.

You should only have to type in your id and password once! Try going to "preferences" and activating the "remember your id/password" option. The program will activate a 'cookie' on your computer, which will automatically insert id/password for you.



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GEM

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by gmattson:
You should only have to type in your id and password once! activating the "remember your id/password" option. The program will activate a 'cookie' on your computer
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Well that's fine for my home computer, but I routinely log on from work and school where I do not want to be leaving my username and passwords lieing around (and at school I don't have privileges to change the configuration anyway)

It will only work in one cookie. So if you set it from your home computer, it won't remember it in your work computer. Unix, as you know, is a case sensitive OS. Some servers run off NT in which case, it wouldn't matter, but Harry Skeffington runs top notch UniX maCHines.

Tony

Not sure there is a solution to your problem, Valkenar. For your home computer, I suggest a password saving program like "Gator", that remembers all the usernames and passwords necessary for navigating the Internet world.


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GEM

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tony-San:
Unix, as you know, is a case sensitive OS. Some servers run off NT in which case, it wouldn't matter, but Harry Skeffington runs top notch UniX maCHines.
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Well, not knowing how the backend is being handled I can't say for sure, but if the accounts are actually official login accounts stored in passwd/shadow then yeah, I guess there's no simple solution. I figured that the web server/forum system had it's own database of registered forum users distinct from the underlying system accounts, in which case it wouldn't be tough to institute a case insensitive forum login match..

Again, though it really isn't any kind of big deal, so if my assumptions were wrong, that's fine and I'll just continue merrily along.

Thanks to both of you for trying to help me on this, though I do understand cookies (I work as a programmer at a web-based training company). The effort is truly appreciated, though my small quibble is hardly worth a big discussion.

It does have it's own database, but the perl script libraries and the like are on a unix host. EG: You login and you browser runs login.cgi which is written in perl. The first line of this script is a reference to the absolute path to perl on the server. If it where an NT server, your login would not be case sensitive. I can't remember but I think there is a different version of UBBS for NT. It's still written for Perl 5 though.