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Month: January 2020

  • Heads Up: Cannot login as horde admin anymore?

    Please be careful: Horde has introduced a new default setting $conf[‘auth’][‘lowercase’] which acts like the auth hook used to do. This might lead to issues when your default admin account is named “Administrator”. It is actually a very useful setting. It ensures that any prefs and other profiles also work with case-insensitive backends regardless of…