ntpasswd not UTF-8 safe?

[Josh Howlett]

Sorry, I meant the "ntpwdhash" function...

josh..

On 25 Jul 2006, at 09:51, Josh Howlett wrote:

> I don't think that the ntpasswd function in smbencrypt.c is safe  
> with multi-byte character encodings, such as UTF-8.
>
> I think that the problem is in the conversion of the password to  
> Unicode, for the construction of the NT hash. The function assumes  
> a single-byte character-set encoding (which works fine for Latin1,  
> etc) but not for multi-byte encodings such as UTF-8.
>
> I'm not quite sure what the best approach to fix this is; does  
> anyone have any suggestions?
>
> best regards, josh.
>
> Josh Howlett, Networking Specialist, University of Bristol.
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Josh Howlett, Networking Specialist, University of Bristol.
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