Dear All, while using the python3 module with 3.2.1 I got the following errors: mod_populate_vptuple:402, vp->da->name: User-Password python_error_log:209, Exception type: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'>, Exception value: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb3 in position 0: invalid start byte do_python_single:496, authorize - mod_populate_vps failed do_python_single:675, authorize - RLM_MODULE_FAIL The cause is a switch whichs software mangles the User-Password to binary garbage. Is this handling of binary values in the python module favorable? To my feeling it would be cleaner to convert to bytes (instead of a string). Then python can handle binary data well. Or make the conversion using replacement character/ignoring encoding errors. The switch will be fixed, so this is only a design question. Thanks for all your great work, greetings Hermann -- Administration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 205; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-14405 Fax: -14427 Email: Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de