Bug #13172 for perl-ldap: Cannot bind with password with £ sign to AD

Thu Jun 09 11:57:51 2005 Guest - Ticket created

Subject:

Cannot bind with password with £ sign to AD

Users with a £ sign in their password cannot bind to their DN in active directory when the password contains a £ sign. I think this maybe a Convert::ASN1 bug.

Fri Jun 10 11:35:32 2005 gbarr [...] pobox.com - Correspondence added

Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:21:05 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:	Re: [cpan #13172] Cannot bind with password with £ sign to AD
From:	"Graham Barr" <gbarr [...] pobox.com>
To:	bug-perl-ldap [...] rt.cpan.org
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On Thu, June 9, 2005 10:57 am, Guest via RT said: Show quoted text

> Users with a £ sign in their password cannot bind to their DN in active > directory when the password contains a £ sign. I think this maybe a > Convert::ASN1 bug.

I was not sure how to answer this as I do not know much about AD, so I forwarded it to the perl-ldap mailing list perl-ldap@perl.org. One response was I'd wonder what octets were actually sent over the wire as the bind password. The character set and encoding used for simple passwords is considered a "local matter", so maybe AD is expecting one encoding and his script/Net::LDAP is sending something else? Which I think is a good question. Can you try your script with debug on. call $ldap->debug(15); just before you call bind. Can I also suggest you mail the list as there are probably more AD people there that can help you and determine if it is a bug. Graham.

Sat Mar 25 22:59:34 2006 GBARR [...] CPAN.ORG - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'

Sun Mar 26 04:52:03 2006 karl [...] bigmite.co.uk - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #13172] Resolved: Cannot bind with password with £ sign to AD
Date:	Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:51:42 +0100
To:	bug-perl-ldap [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Karl Royer <karl [...] bigmite.co.uk>

Thanks for this - as the system showing the problems is in production we've had severe issues with debugging. Only one in 10,000 people can't log in - but thats still 27 people within Pfizer I'll test new version in next week or so, but we only get one bug report every 3 months on average - but I do know a lady who's password failed - so I'll ask if its now ok - cant debug as its under regulatory compliance. Yours, Karl Royer On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 22:59 -0500, Graham_Barr via RT wrote: Show quoted text

> <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13172 > > > According to our records, your request has been resolved. If you have any > further questions or concerns, please respond to this message.

Sun Mar 26 04:52:04 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'resolved' to 'open'

Wed Mar 29 19:43:54 2006 GBARR [...] CPAN.ORG - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'