Re: IETF ldapbis WG Last Call: draft-ietf-ldapbis-user-schema-05.txt

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Ramsay, Ron wrote:
> I agree with the resolutions, except for passwords. For passwords, I
> agree that there was WG consensus. My own opinion, however, is that these
> are octet strings and that a password matches only if the sequence of
> octets is the same.

There was consensus that octet string matching of passwords will not be 
changed to ensure compability with implementations using some kind of local 
definition. But to solve current interoperability issues it is very 
important to recommend a character set/encoding (here UTF-8) for *textual* 
passwords sent by the LDAP client.

There was a thread on this list quite a while ago with subject
"Revisited: NON-ASCII chars in userPassword" started 2001-10-29.

Ciao, Michael.