add a note about case-sensitivity of NSS and LDAP databases

git-svn-id: http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd/nss-ldapd@354 ef36b2f9-881f-0410-afb5-c4e39611909c

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diff --git a/README b/README
index 8c2fda7..5d713ad 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -287,3 +287,12 @@ When using Microsoft Active Directory server (typically on Microsoft Windows
 2000) some changes need to be made to the nss-ldapd.conf configuration file.
 The default configuration file has some commented out attribute mappings for
 such a setup.
+
+MISC NOTES
+==========
+
+Most values in the NSS databases are considered case-sensitive (e.g. the user
+"Foo" is a different user from "foo"). Values in an LDAP database are however
+case-insensitive. This may cause problems in some corner cases, especially
+when nscd is used for caching. For example when doing a lookup for the user
+"Foo" the user "foo" will be returned if it exists in the database.