[PATCH] LDAP_EXOP charset fix

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 02:12, Dariush Forouher wrote:
> Samba gives the password to ldap_extended_operation in unicode, while it
> should be saved in local charset (e.g. ISO-8859-15) instead. The current
> behaviour causes problems with other ldap clients like pam_ldap, because
> they don't transcode the password to unicode. Attached patch should fix
> this.

No, this is a bug in pam_ldap then.  We should never send data to LDAP
that is not utf8.  What makes the 'unix charset' of *this* machine
special anyway?  Nobody is saying that it is the same as the charset of
any other machine, nor that 'unix charset' is the localle charset.

Andrew Bartlett

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