Confluence Docs 2.10 : Fix Case Mismatches in Permissions
This page last changed on Mar 05, 2008 by smaddox.
Some customers have reported problems with permissions, where some space and/or global permissions have been lost if using a case-sensitive database. The problem arises when the case of the username or group name, as referenced by the permssion, does not match the case of the user's username or the group name.
In Confluence 2.7.2 and later:
What will the Routine Do?If both the following are true: The username referenced by the permission,
Then the routine will change the permission's username to match the user's username exactly, in terms of upper/lower case. Similarly for group permissions, the routine will change the permission's group name to match the related group name exactly, in terms of upper/lower case. If one or more duplicate permissions exist as a result of this change, the duplicates will remain i.e. the routine will not remove any duplicated permissions. In these rare cases, you may see the following behaviour:
Running the Routine
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