[Samba] Creating users with non-ascii chars fails

[Marc Muehlfeld]

Hello Roel,

Am 02.09.2014 14:52, schrieb Roel van Meer:
> I'm trying to create a user with non-ascii characters in the name, but this
> fails:
> 
> root at test-samba4:~# samba-tool user create foa --given-name='foaä'
> New Password:
> Retype Password:
> ldb_handler_fold: unable to casefold string [foaä]
> ldb_handler_fold: unable to casefold string [foaä]
> ldb_handler_fold: unable to casefold string [foaä]
> ldb_handler_fold: unable to casefold string [foaä]
> Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(ä)
> ERROR(ldb): Failed to add user 'foa':  - objectclass_attrs: attribute
> 'displayName' on entry 'CN=foaä,CN=Users,DC=s4,DC=local' contains at
> least one invalid value!


1.) It's a bad idea to create users with special characters. You will
get trouble with other connected applications somewhen for sure. :-)


2.) It's not a bug (done on RHEL7):
    # samba-tool user create foa --given-name='foaä'
    New Password:
    Retype Password:
    User 'foa' created successfully


3.) Can you check
    # smbd -b | grep icon -i
       HAVE_ICONV_H
       HAVE_ICONV
       HAVE_ICONV_OPEN
       HAVE_NATIVE_ICONV
    This is the output on my RHEL7



Regards,
Marc