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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?
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> This seems like one place where case insensitive makes the most sense.
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> Thanks,
> Kiall
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> Sent from my phone.
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> On Jun 8, 2012 11:01 p.m., "Joseph Suh" <jsuh at isi.edu> wrote:
> I'd vote case-sensitive.
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> Joseph
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Waldon" <brian.waldon at rackspace.com>
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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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