On Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 22:13, Oskar Liljeblad wrote: > I like the idea of opaque passwords as well, but the problem is that the > password needs to be in UCS-2 for smb. The password is passed through > _my_mbstowcs which converts the 8-bit password to 16-bit UCS-2 simply > by setting high byte to zero. So that makes opaque 8-bit passwords > impossible. One alternative would be to assume passwords in UTF-8 > regardless of iocharset. On another note, it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft assumes UTF-16 rather than UCS-2 in their CIFS implementation today... Oskar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
