[squid-users] squid_ldap_auth special character in password

From: Frank Fegert <frank.fegert@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:39:20 +0100

Hello all,

our squid (2.5stable3) is authenticating users via squid_ldap_auth
(with OpenLDAP 2.0.25) against our NDS.
If a password contains special characters (e.g.: §, \, ', ä, ö, ü,
EURO-sign, a, o, u with accent) the authentication fails. According
to a Novell TID the NDS seems to expect the passwords to be
encoded in UTF8 and special characters escaped with a "\"
(as in RFC2253, Chap. 2.4). Since we're located in the german
area especially the german umlauts would be nice to have ;-)
Though i'm not a C wizard, i had a look at squid_ldap_auth.c,
but couldn't find any character escaping and/or UTF8 conversion.
Hence the question, is the character escaping and/or UTF8
conversion done in the OpenLDAP functions/libraries, or has
this to be provided by the squid_ldap_auth helper?
Has anyone experienced a similar problem and/or can give me
some pointers how to solve the problem?

Regards,

Frank
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