On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Christian Manal wrote: > Hi, > > > As my name contains a german umlaut I do get an error adding 'Götz > > Reinicke' for the gecko. > > > > Do you mean 'gecos' with that? The 'gecos' attribute from the NIS-schema > is an IA5 string [1], which is equal to ASCII. You won't be able to use > special characters with that one. > > > > Also for 'displayName', 'cn' and 'givenName' the 'ö' is automatically > > replaced by 'oe'. > > > > If I change the entry in the ldap by hand in the apache DS, the 'ö' is > > accepted accept for the geckos. An 'ü' in 'o' is manually accepted to. > > > > How is your ldif file encoded? 'cn', 'givenName' and so on are defined > as SUB to 'name', which is defined with "Directory Sting" syntax [2] aka > UTF-8. > > > Regards, > Christian Manal
When you decide which attribute is to store utf-8 string, look into libnss-ldap manual page to find out how to map other attribute to be used as filling for "gecos" NSS field. Regards, DT
