Description
This article describes the option to disable username case sensitivity for all types of local users.
Scope
FortiGate.
Solution
By default, remote LDAP and RADIUS user names are case-sensitive.
When a remote user object is applied to SSL VPN authentication, the user has to type the exact case that is used in the user definition on the FortiGate.
Case sensitivity can be disabled by the ‘set username-case-sensitivity’ CLI command, allowing the remote user object to match any case that the end user types in while logging.
To disable case sensitivity for individual users use the following command.
config user local
edit "<name>"
set type password
set username-case-sensitivity disable/enable
end
Note that this option will be available only from CLI and when the user is enabled with any two-factor authentication method.
From v5.6.14, v6.0.13, v6.2.10, v6.4.7, v7.0.1:
To match accented characters (e.g. 'ě' instead of 'e' and other few characters ščřžýáíéúů), which are present in many non-English languages, the existing option 'username-case-sensitivity' has been changed to 'username-sensitivity'. This new option includes both case sensitivity and accent sensitivity. When disabled, both case and accents are ignored when comparing names while matching the local user.
config user local
edit example
set username-sensitivity ? <-
enable <----- Do not ignore cases and accents. The username at the prompt must be an exact match.
disable <----- Ignore case and accents. The username at the prompt is not required to match the case or accents.
next
end
