[krbdev.mit.edu #5836] Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #5838] libkrb5 (libads/kerberos.c:ads_kinit_password) fails with 16 bit UTF8 characters in usernames and/or passwords

[dan@adelix.com via RT]

Hi,

Would it be possible for an external body to fund or aid development of 
support for non-ASCII characters in the libkrb5 library?

Regards, Dan...

Ken Raeburn via RT wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2007, at 10:38, Dan Searle via RT wrote:
>   
>> I came across this problem when trying to use the Samba "net" command,
>> or pam_krb5 to authenticate users against an active directory, they
>> fail if the username and/or password uses UTF8 characters encoded with
>> more than one byte, for instance...
>>     
>
> That's correct, we currently don't support non-ASCII characters well,  
> and in particular, non-ASCII passwords for accounts using RC4  
> encryption just don't work when talking to Microsoft implementations,  
> or anything compatible with their handling of non-ASCII passwords.
>
> It's one of the things we'd like to fix up, if those funding the  
> Kerberos Consortium rate it an important enough problem of course...
>
> Ken
>
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