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? > > 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. > > Regards, Howard > -- > > Howard Wilkinson > > > > Phone: > > > > +44(20)76907075 > > Coherent Technology Limited > > > > Fax: > > > > > > 23 Northampton Square, > > > > Mobile: > > > > +44(7980)639379 > > United Kingdom, EC1V 0HL > > > > Email: > > > > howard at cohtech.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > 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. -- Howard Wilkinson Phone: +44(20)76907075 Coherent Technology Limited Fax: 23 Northampton Square, Mobile: +44(7980)639379 United Kingdom, EC1V 0HL Email: howard at cohtech.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20080419/5e9fa8c5/attachment.html
