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[Kiall Mac Innes <kiall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What's the argument for allowing both, for example, "admin", "Admin" and
"admIn" roles?

This seems like one place where case insensitive makes the most sense.

Thanks,
Kiall

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On Jun 8, 2012 11:01 p.m., "Joseph Suh" <jsuh@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'd vote case-sensitive.
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> From: "Brian Waldon" <brian.waldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 5:50:45 PM
> Subject: [Openstack] Comparing roles - case (in)sensitivity
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> tl;dr - Should we compare roles as case-sensitive or case-insensitive? I
> vote case-sensitive.
>
> This bug was recently filed in Glance:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1010519 . It points out that Nova
> and Keystone are both case-insensitive when it comes to role comparison,
> yet Glance *is* case sensitive. I'm in favor of moving other projects to a
> case-sensitive approach for two main reasons:
>
>
> 1) If a role is a string, and comparing strings is inherently
> case-sensitive, then role comparison would logically be case-sensitive
> 2) I get to do less work
>
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> Thoughts?
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> Brian Waldon
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