User 'lucas' - completely non functional?!

Hey everyone,
I'm having a very, very bizarre problem that I'm hoping someone can shed some light on.
OS X Server 10.5.2 on an Xserve. The thing is still in near out-of-the-box condition. I set Apache up with a few sites, but otherwise, the server is blank. I didn't migrate any users or groups from anywhere - it's quite a blank slate right now aside from some straight user accounts filed into two groups - all standard stuff though, nothing fancy at all. The users and groups were only set up to handle access to realms under Apache.
So one of my users, named Lucas, needed an account to enter some stuff on our intranet site. I created an account with the name "Lucas", short name "lucas", a password, and filed him into our two groups. Just like I had done for about eight other accounts - same setup, same everything.
But this user "lucas" cannot log into the site.
I checked the logs, and found this:
modauthapple: Access to /special/fbo/calendar/month.php failed, reason: user 'lucas' does not meet 'require'ments for user/valid-user to be allowed access
Huh. Aside from the weirdness in the word "requirements", I thought maybe I'd put him in the wrong groups. Checked again. Changed the password. Changed the name of the account. Nothing I do does the trick - the server just spits out the login attempt.
So then I tried creating a bunch of other users:
"lucis"
"luces"
"lacis"
"lacus"
etc…
These *all worked fine.* I'm stumped. There's never been a user with a name remotely resembling "lucas" on this server, ever, before about an hour ago when I created it.
Help?!

Wow! I know you are not looking to experiment (or I assume you aren't) but I would suggest at least trying this once. To me is sounds like you are describing an issue where when the long and short names are initially identical, this might occur.
So, create a new user with the same long and short names (like 'faust'/'faust' etc.) and see if somehow it is some kind of AD rights issue maybe between long and short names etc. and let us know or, if that is what you did, confirm that as well, and that it would seem to be something with the name 'lucas' only.
I will be watching this thread!
Peter
OOh! What is the uid and gid of lucas?!? need to know that and the rights assignment for /special/fbo/calendar/month.php while your at it.
Message was edited by: Peter Scordamaglia - updated info request.

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