no lower_user/lower_pass in pre2 ?

[Alan DeKok]

Phil Mayers wrote:
>>  It's better to just use lowercase for everything, rather than running
>> an authentication request *twice* through the server.
> 
> Well yes - but if the NAS sends it in upper-case...

  Then mash it to lowercase...

> I did look into this briefly; sadly the "tr" source code is pretty big
> and not exacltly modular :o)

  GNU tr?  Don't look at any of *that* stuff.  The BSD tr's will be much
smaller and cleaner.

  And in any case, we would need very little of the full 'tr'
functionality.  Even a minimal version would be better than nothing.

  Alan DeKok.