are there any characters not allowed in a password used with LDAP bind as user?

2010-10-21 Thread mark.leese
Hi, For a couple of years I've been successfully using FreeRADIUS to authenticate some users against Active Directory using cleartext passwords, a Perl script to do some department checking, and a simple LDAP bind as user. I've now got at least one user who fails authentication, and I'm

Re: are there any characters not allowed in a password used with LDAP bind as user?

2010-10-21 Thread Phil Mayers
On 10/21/2010 08:52 PM, mark.le...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: I don't know whether the problem lies with me (for allowing a backslash in the password in the first place) the NAS for appearing to 'escape' the backslash (with a backslash) rlm_ldap accesses the raw string value of the request-password

Re: are there any characters not allowed in a password used with LDAP bind as user?

2010-10-21 Thread Phil Mayers
On 10/21/2010 10:27 PM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 10/21/2010 08:52 PM, mark.le...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: I don't know whether the problem lies with me (for allowing a backslash in the password in the first place) the NAS for appearing to 'escape' the backslash (with a backslash) rlm_ldap accesses