[squid-users] squid_ldap_auth special character in password

Hello all,

our squid (2.5stable3) is authenticating users via squid=5Fldap=5Fauth
(with OpenLDAP 2.0.25) against our NDS.
If a password contains special characters (e.g.: =A7, \, ', =E4, =F6, =FC,
EURO-sign, a, o, u with accent) the authentication fails. According
to a Novell TID the NDS seems to expect the passwords to be
encoded in UTF8 and special characters escaped with a "\"
(as in RFC2253, Chap. 2.4). Since we're located in the german
area especially the german umlauts would be nice to have ;-)
Though i'm not a C wizard, i had a look at squid=5Fldap=5Fauth.c,=20
but couldn't find any character escaping and/or UTF8 conversion.
Hence the question, is the character escaping and/or UTF8=20
conversion done in the OpenLDAP functions/libraries, or has
this to be provided by the squid=5Fldap=5Fauth helper=3F
Has anyone experienced a similar problem and/or can give me
some pointers how to solve the problem=3F

Regards,

Frank
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