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[Kiall Mac Innes <kiall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure - The most obvious reason is human error leading to a security hole.
E.g. Accidently assigning a user "Admin" when you really meant to assign
"admin".

Treating roles as case insensitive helps prevent this kind of human error.

What advantages does allowing distinct "Admin" and "admin" roles provide?

Thanks,
Kiall

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On Jun 8, 2012 11:20 p.m., "Brian Waldon" <brian.waldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Can you explain why?
>
> On Jun 8, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Kiall Mac Innes wrote:
>
> No, I'm suggesting they should all be treated as a single role. I.e. roles
> should be case insensitive.
>
> Thanks,
> Kiall
>
> Sent from my phone.
> On Jun 8, 2012 11:16 p.m., "Brian Waldon" <brian.waldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm suggesting we support only a single representation of a role across
>> all projects: 'admin', 'Admin', and 'admIn' would be three separate roles.
>>
>> Are you suggesting otherwise?
>>
>> On Jun 8, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Kiall Mac Innes wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Sent from my phone.
>> On Jun 8, 2012 11:01 p.m., "Joseph Suh" <jsuh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd vote case-sensitive.
>>>
>>> Joseph
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Brian Waldon" <brian.waldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: "openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)" <
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>>> Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 5:50:45 PM
>>> Subject: [Openstack] Comparing roles - case (in)sensitivity
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian Waldon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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