[Samba] broken mailing-list -> Re: Accentuated characters issue when receiving attributes from "samba user syncpasswords"

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Mar 28 14:59:19 UTC 2018



Am 28.03.2018 um 16:50 schrieb Lapin Blanc:
> Thank you for the tip, i'll use it, but how come it's correctly encoded
> in the DN and not in the attribute ?
> Is it related to the ldif format or something ?

no idea and hence *do not* reply privately on mailing-lists
i just recognize base64 when i see it

proper mail clients respect
List-Post: <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>

whoever configured that mailing list to add a wrong reply-to header
should be punsihed because my mails for sure contain one and it's
pervert to break a list like that
Reply-To: Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>

> 2018-03-28 16:06 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>>:
> 
>     Am 28.03.2018 um 15:52 schrieb Lapin Blanc via samba:
>     > I receive stdin input from "samba user syncpasswords" in my python script.
>     > The user is created with ' Active Directory Users and Computers', and have
>     > some accentuated characters in their givenName and/or familyName (sn)
>     > When parsing the diff, the CN reads of, but weird characters appears in the
>     > attributes instead of the right name :
>     >
>     > INFO:root:DN found: CN=Arsène Lupin,CN=Users,DC=educonsult,DC=intra
>     > INFO:root:Attribute found: cn: = QXJzw6huZSBMdXBpbg==
>     > INFO:root:Attribute found: sn = Lupin
>     > INFO:root:Attribute found: givenName: = QXJzw6huZQ==
>     > INFO:root:Attribute found: displayName: = QXJzw6huZSBMdXBpbg==
>     > INFO:root:Attribute found: name: = QXJzw6huZSBMdXBpbg==
>     > INFO:root:Attribute found: objectGUID = c20847ee-963b-4d70-9c5c-a4e5458745f4
>     > INFO:root:Attribute found: objectSid =
>     > S-1-5-21-1504766521-268068577-265870750-1120
>     > INFO:root:Attribute found: sAMAccountName = arsene.lupin
>     >
>     > When using regular characters, everything is fine
> 
>     there is nothing weird
> 
>     php > echo base64_decode('QXJzw6huZSBMdXBpbg==');
>     Arsène Lupin



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