ntpasswd not UTF-8 safe?

[Josh Howlett]

On 25 Jul 2006, at 11:28, Alan DeKok wrote:
>
>>> but it's not clear
>>> how to store and mark UTF-8 attributes within FreeRADIUS.
>>
>> Okay, but in the context of rlm_mschap only, we don't have to worry
>> about this - right?
>
>   If the password is UTF-8, that has to be handled by rlm_mschap.

Do you think the simplest approach is to *always* iconv() the  
password from UTF-8 to Unicode in "ntpwdhash"? If the password is  
either ASCII or UTF-8 then it should work (because ASCII is a subset  
of UTF-8). (If it's some other multi-byte encoding it'll fail, but  
then it would fail anyway with the existing code.)

best regards, josh.

Josh Howlett, Networking Specialist, University of Bristol.
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