From: Prodos (Melbourne, Australia)

Good evening.

In an earlier post, I wrote:

I've followed the instructions at:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access

... which prevents a new user from creating an account but which should still allow me as admin to create a new account, but I just can't make it work.

Here are the instructions that I've been following from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access

In order to prevent new user registrations, the following line could be added to the LocalSettings.php file: $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "sysop" => 1, "developer" => 1 );

Note: New users will still be able to be created by sysops, in the following manner:

Go to [[Special:Userlogin]], when logged in as a sysop. Enter a username and an email address, and click the "by email" button. The account will be created with a random password which is then emailed to the given address.

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However, when I do all this I just get a note in red saying:

"You have not specified a valid user name."

I worked out that when I made the first letter of the username UPPER-case it all worked like a dream!

I've been struggling with this for 2 weeks. Sheesh!

It seems that usernames that are all lower-case are rejected!

Why should that be? I don't get it.

Is there some way to allow all-lower-case usernames?

Best Wishes,

http://prodos.thinkertothinker.com