LDAP Authentication fails with ñ character in password.

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Hi Guys,

I've got a rails application that uses activeldap to authenticate users. Its been working great for about 6 months now, but a user from mexico started using it recently, but can't seem to login. I've narrowed it down to the fact that his password contains a ñ character in it. This problem is also present in a test user account I've setup. ActiveLDAP uses ruby/ldap libarary and from what I can tell it fails there as well. I've also tried the net-ldap code and it fails there as well. Is seems like a low level encoding issue and I could really use the help to solve it. It looks like everyone of the ruby LDAP libraries are dead in development, so I'm seeking help from a much larger community.

Any ideas? Perhaps I need to encode the unicode password or something?

Your suggestions are both welcome and really needed.

Thanks Everyone, Jim

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Do you guys need more information? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks?

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Do you guys need more information? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks?

> Hi Guys, > > I've got a rails application that uses activeldap to authenticate > users. Its been working great for about 6 months now, but a user from > mexico started using it recently, but can't seem to login. I've > narrowed it down to the fact that his password contains a ñ character > in it. This problem is also present in a test user account I've setup. > ActiveLDAP uses ruby/ldap libarary and from what I can tell it fails > there as well. I've also tried the net-ldap code and it fails there as > well. Is seems like a low level encoding issue and I could really use > the help to solve it. It looks like everyone of the ruby LDAP > libraries are dead in development, so I'm seeking help from a much > larger community. > > Any ideas? Perhaps I need to encode the unicode password or something? > > Your suggestions are both welcome and really needed.

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Thanks, I'll give it a try.