[Fedora-directory-users] Passwords with Unicode characters

[Howard Wilkinson]

Howard Wilkinson wrote:
> We have run into a 'funny' when using the password_modify plugin we 
> get an unexpected result in trying to set a password. The password 
> used had a '£' (British Pund Symbol) in it. The server accepted the 
> password but would not allow the use of the same string to log in. I 
> suspect that the passwords are being 8th bit stripped. Is this 
> possible, correct, and what should happen?
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> Is there any facility to set a Unicode string as a password. If so 
> what format (UTF-8, UTF-16[BE|LE], ...) should it take.
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> Regards, Howard
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I have made this work by switching off 7-bit clean, and changing the 
password complexity so that the minimum of each class is zero and there 
is a requirement for 3 classes. BUT there is a definite bug in the 7-bit 
clean interface as it removes the 8th-bit and does not reject the 
request when setting the password. I would have expected a code 19 - 
Constraint violation in this case.

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Howard Wilkinson

	

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Coherent Technology Limited

	

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