# IDP Case-Insensitive username

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/idp-case-insensitive-username/44608>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [March 18, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/idp-case-insensitive-username/44608 "2021-03-18T02:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/idp-case-insensitive-username/44608/1 "2021-03-18T02:05:08Z")

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It seems that in the change log from April 2019, that IDP usernames were made case-insensitive, however in 8.1.3 I'm unable to login unless the case matches for usernames.

> [@Nightly Changelogs - 2019](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-changelogs-2019/21716/47):
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> Nightly Changelog: 8.0.0- beta.20190401 Allen-Bradley Drivers 13378: Update ENIP library to 1.3.0 13377: Fix regression in Logix driver ReadOptimizer Ignition Platform 13199: Improved locking in subscription management and batch execution to avoid concurrent modification exceptions that were seen when importing tags. Also fixes FB13226 12926: Fixed reconciliation of pulled folder deletes vs. local changes 12847: EAM Controller doesn’t display Gateway backup details Internal error was thro…

**13315: Compare usernames in a case-insensitive way**  
Login using an Ignition IdP now handles usernames in a case-insensitive fashion

Is this a regression?

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/idp-case-insensitive-username/44608/2 "2021-03-18T15:57:30Z")

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I think that's a slightly misleading release note...  
See this thread for more context on the bug:

> [@\[BUG-13315\] No IdP Response Data](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-13315-no-idp-response-data/23606/6):
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> Ah that explains it. It appears that during authentication, the username is case insensitive, but when we perform the redirect back to the application (in this case, test login), we are performing a case sensitive lookup of the user’s information to fill in the attribute mapper and that lookup is based on how the user entered their username in the login form (in a case-sensitive fashion). I’m going to mark this as a bug on our side. We’ll figure out a better way to handle this. Thanks for sha…