Case Sensitive Usernames

Every so often I come across a login that requires a case sensitive username. Most often I only discover what is going on after typing in my username and password 5 times and swearing that I know the password is correct. This practice should stop for the following reasons:

• It is extremely annoying and confusing.


• Most often you can't change your username, so you are stuck with the case you entered when you created the account


• Usernames should be unique INDEPENDENT of case. What, are you going to allow two users, one named johnsmith and one named JohnSmith? Why on Earth would you do that?


• I don't care what Unix/C++ does, fanboi.


• The confusion created by case sensitive usernames outweighs the "added security". Let all the security be in the case sensitive password.