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Digest Authentication usernames are case sensitive sometimes

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November 1, 2012 7:30:58 PM

I have an internal web based application at work where users login using Digest Authentication in IIS. The user names are entered into Active Directory in camel case. So user, John Robert Doe would have a username of DoeJR1. The system automatically sets users up like that.

When he logs into Windows as himself, the application will let him log in if he uses any of the following usernames: DOEJR1, doejr1 or DoeJR1.

When any other user is logged into Windows, John Doe can only login to the application using the DoeJR1 camel case login.

How can I make it so the user can login with lower or upper case when logged into windows using a guest user account?

I hope this is the right part of the forum to ask this in. Thank you for your suggestions.

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November 12, 2012 4:28:27 PM

There are a few different things it could be, a few things it might be:

Do you have reversible encryption enabled?
Are you using a realm value in IIS?
Have you tried it using Domain\User and see if specifying the realm value (correctly cased). Specifying the domain may remove the case sensitivity.

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