Managing DNs in libads only in utf8

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Feb 27 20:46:41 GMT 2007


On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:03:24PM -0500, simo wrote:
> 
> We are talking of AD and an enterprise wide directory here, not
> something joe samba admin can necessarily fix.

Ok, had a phone call with Simo on this issue. We decided :

1). We're broken here, and the "unix charset = utf8" bandaid
is the current best (ie. easiest) solution.

2). Escaping isn't being done correctly, Simo is going to
write a fix for this - in the meantime I'm checking in my
consistency fix so that we're broken in the same way in
both calls.

3). Simo is compeltely correct - the "correct" fix for
this is to enforce utf8 internally and move the boundary
for unix charset out. But this is a bigger fix than we
have time for for 3.0.25. But I'd like to open the
design gates for how to do this - more in a follow
up email later :-).

Cheers,

	Jeremy.


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