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Re: query regarding user names and passwords



anish patil wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I want to add usr names  which are not in ASCII characters using ldapadd
> command .
> 
> I tried it on RHEL 4.4 , it giving me following error
> 
> <error>
>       adding new entry "uid=ああああ,ou=People,dc=avaya,dc=com"
>       ldap_add: Invalid DN syntax (34)
>            additional info: invalid DN
> </error>
> 
> Systems locale set:-*LANG=ja_JP.SJIS*
> 
> i  googled it i found this
> 
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200308/msg00570.html
> 
> But this post is in 2003
> 
> So i wanted to know is it LDAP's limitation ?

LDAP according to specifications requires to encode strings in UTF-8.
So it's not a limitation of LDAP (or of OpenLDAP); you're misusing it.

p.



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