Hi Jeff,
Unfortunately it looks like the forums and bug reporter for that module are 
pretty inactive so I’m not sure there’s anybody monitoring them.

Cheers,
Andi

From: Jeff Trawick [mailto:traw...@gmail.com]
Sent: 24 June 2014 15:26
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Pound symbol encoding issue?

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Morris, Andi 
<amor...@cardiffmet.ac.uk<mailto:amor...@cardiffmet.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi,
We are having some authentication issues with Apache if a user has a £ symbol 
as part of their password. The error_log shows:
(OS 1326)Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password

When the same user removes the pound symbol from the password they are 
authenticated with no issues.

The setup is:
TMG publishes our Shibboleth server externally and present the user with a form 
for Forms Based Authentication. Shibboleth uses an Apache virtual server called 
Remote User to handle the authentication.

The problem only occurs when the users login from outside our network, via TMG 
and the Apache Remote User vhost.
The same TMG form is used to publish our sharepoint and other internal 
resources, and the issue does not occur there when using the same test user.

The parts of the config that I can see that are relevant are:
<Location /idp/Authn/RemoteUser>
    AuthName "Identity Provider"
    AuthType SSPI
    SSPIAuth On

Have you checked with the mod_auth_sspi folks?  (mailing list or bug db)  I 
suspect that this is an issue with that third-party module.  Perhaps someone 
here can help, but a resource specific to mod_auth_sspi would probably yield 
better results.

If you can duplicate the error with some simple httpd-bundled authentication 
module (e.g., mod_authn_file), open a bug against httpd and provide the test 
case.


    SSPIAuthoritative On
    SSPIOfferBasic On
    SSPIOmitDomain On
    SSPIPerRequestAuth On
    SSPIUsernameCase lower
    require valid-user
</Location>

I've read around about forcing the basic authentication using:
SSPIBasicPreferred On
So I'm going to give that a try overnight (I can only restart the apache 
service out of hours frustratingly).

I'm happy to post up any obfuscated config files that might be required to help 
resolve this. I'm pretty new to Apache but willing to provide whatever is 
required.

Does anyone have any suggestions for why the apache server doesn't seem to like 
the pound symbol?

Cheers,
Andi

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