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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Son

To test:

1) have a user with a username that has an uppercase char in the name.
2) set up an institution that has xmlrpc auth as well as another auth as parent auth and add user to the institution
3) have remoteauthname set for the user for parent auth and try logging in via xmlrpc with that username

currently the check when a parent auth is available  checks the
lowercase(username) against the same username not lowecased and so
should throw an error

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364170

Title:
  Parent auth fails due to mixed case checking

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  In Progress
Status in Mahara 1.7 series:
  Confirmed
Status in Mahara 1.8 series:
  Confirmed
Status in Mahara 1.9 series:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Currently in the auth/user.php [around line 187] there is  a query
  that is matching lower(username) against username

  At the very least it should be lower(u.username) against us.username

  however the whole sql query could be tidied up to function better.

  Normally, usernames are email addresses and are stored as lowecase
  strings - but sometimes you need a username that is not lowercase and
  so this check fails.

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