Received: from thb-mta-08.emailsystems.com (thb-mta-08-tx.emailfiltering.com [194.116.199.208]) by krbdev.mit.edu (8.12.9) with ESMTP id lA9A64HW019002; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 05:06:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from ns.adelix.com ([212.100.254.243]) by thb-mta-08.emailsystems.com with emfmta (version 3.5.2.3338.0.r-3.2.2-libc2.3.1) by TLS id 1414762096 for rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:05:55 +0000 Received: from 81-178-20-107.dsl.pipex.com ([81.178.20.107] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ns.adelix.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IqQnX-0003i2-5i for rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:09:11 +0000 Message-ID: <47343127.3050104@adelix.com> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:06:31 +0000 From: Dan Searle User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #5836] Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #5838] libkrb5 (libads/kerberos.c:ads_kinit_password) fails with 16 bit UTF8 characters in usernames and/or passwords References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Adelix: yes RT-Send-Cc: X-RT-Original-Encoding: iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 1540 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