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Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#28544 closed defect (bug) (wontfix)

Case of usernames does not matter on login

Reported by: kniebremser's profile Kniebremser Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 3.9.1
Component: Login and Registration Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description

I have no idea if this is a security ticket is already?

When I log into my WP installation, is the spelling of the user name does not matter. It will not pay attention to small and large case of the characters.

Change History (2)

#1 @SergeyBiryukov
9 years ago

  • Summary changed from wp-login spelling the usenamens does not matter to Case of usernames does not matter on login

#2 @jeremyfelt
9 years ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution set to wontfix
  • Status changed from new to closed

This is intentional per #5472. We used to maintain a false sense of case sensitivity for usernames, but case insensitivity makes more sense with how MySQL handles the search by default.

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