Hi, Would it be possible for an external body to fund or aid development of support for non-ASCII characters in the libkrb5 library? Regards, Dan... Ken Raeburn via RT wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007, at 10:38, Dan Searle via RT wrote: > >> I came across this problem when trying to use the Samba "net" command, >> or pam_krb5 to authenticate users against an active directory, they >> fail if the username and/or password uses UTF8 characters encoded with >> more than one byte, for instance... >> > > That's correct, we currently don't support non-ASCII characters well, > and in particular, non-ASCII passwords for accounts using RC4 > encryption just don't work when talking to Microsoft implementations, > or anything compatible with their handling of non-ASCII passwords. > > It's one of the things we'd like to fix up, if those funding the > Kerberos Consortium rate it an important enough problem of course... > > Ken > > _______________________________________________ > krb5-bugs mailing list > krb5-bugs@mit.edu > https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/krb5-bugs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Scanned for viruses, spam and offensive content by CensorNet MailSafe > > Professional Web & E-mail Filtering from www.censornet.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scanned for viruses, spam and offensive content by CensorNet MailSafe Professional Web & E-mail Filtering from www.censornet.com