Re: kerberos auth against w2k server with 8 bit chars in password

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<9m1qqa$jme$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> divulged:

>Windows 2000 represents non-ASCII characters as UTF-8 strings
>MIT and Heimdal represent them as 8-bit ISO-Latin1.  Therefore,
>this will not work.

you could hack the source to use utf-8 encoding (horrible as that encoding
is), but you'd have to be sure to update your entire domain, and
cross-domain authentication would suffer.

(and, hatefully enough, the microsoft method is the better of the two.  it
doesn't conform with the standards (such as they are) nor the deployed
world (not that they've ever cared about that), so it shouldn't have been
done as it was.  but it is superior.  don't agree?  think of a domain that
encompasses hosts in germany, israel, and japan, that doesn't wish to force
any one area to use the string (language) conventions of the other.)

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