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Re: Debugging a user authentication

Michael Ströder writes:
>Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>Howard Chu writes:
>> [Pulling last line up front]
>>> userPassword is a string of *octets* not *characters*...
>> 
>> This is backwards.  That simply means anything can be stored there
>> - so password charset policy, if any, is up to whoever stores
>> userPassword values.
> 
> Yupp. And this lead to interop problems.

Well, yes.  In the sense that "LDAP auth won't work at our site" is
no interop problem while "it works when clients do it <this way>" is.

-- 
Hallvard