special characters in passwords + FR + ldap

[Natalia Escalera]

Hello Mr. Turtiainen:

Thank you for your response.

> We have made a small fix to the ldap-module (as seen in the link to the
> mailing list archive). I don't know if this has been fixed in 1.1.0. I
> once had a quick look at the ldap-module of 1.1.0, it should be quite
> easy to test if it still fails.

The password issue is also in FR 1.1.0. I will try the patch suggested on
http://bugs.freeradius.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261 and see if it works for
our implementation.

Thank you,
Natalia.

On 3/7/06, Turtiainen, Tero <tero.turtiainen at capgemini.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:19:32 -0600
> > From: "Natalia Escalera" <nescalera at gmail.com>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > What is needed is that Freeradius accepts passwors even if special
> > charaters are part of them. This is what is happening:
> >
> >
> >             pass$word -> FR -> LDAP -> FR (Answer: wrong password)
> >
> > Any ideas of how to solve it?
>
> This looks very much like the feature we have seen with FR 0.9.3.
> Passwords with a "special character" are truncated, resulting in
> password check failing.
>
> http://lists.freeradius.org/mailman/htdig/freeradius-users/2005-July/045
> 560.html
>
> This may be related to this bug, which is still open (I don't agree
> with the severity=minor :)
> http://bugs.freeradius.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261
>
> We have made a small fix to the ldap-module (as seen in the link to the
> mailing list archive). I don't know if this has been fixed in 1.1.0. I
> once had a quick look at the ldap-module of 1.1.0, it should be quite
> easy to test if it still fails.
> --
> Tero Turtiainen
> Technology Services
> Capgemini
> tero.turtiainen at capgemini.com
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