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Re: 8-bit ASCII password?

To: Jeremiah Martell <inlovewithgod@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 8-bit ASCII password?
From: Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha@kth.se>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:16:30 +0200
Cc: heimdal-discuss@sics.se
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11 sep 2006 kl. 20.08 skrev Jeremiah Martell:

> It seems that I can't have a special character (value > 127) in my
> password. Is this in the kerberos standard? Is this a bug? Is this a
> configuration issue? Or... ?

The kerberos protocol doesn't support non ASCII charaters in
principals nor passwords. Heimdal just take the string from
the current locale and uses that. This break things.

Talk to the krb-wg if you want to see more progress on this issue.

Love

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