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Re: space sensitive ?

To: "Susanth TS" <Susanth_TS@sifycorp.com>
Subject: Re: space sensitive ?
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 21:38:05 -0700
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <65256BCB.00368108.00@Sifycorp.com>

At 03:07 AM 2002-06-01, Susanth TS wrote:
>We find rules with "space insensitive"  for attributes. But we do not find any
>rule with "space sensitive".

All standard character string matching rules are "space insensitive".

>We have a client which authenticates on ldap . I
>do not want clients to authenticate with leading and trailing spaces.

I note that passwords in LDAP are octetString with octetStringMatch
equality matching.  It's generally advised that LDAP clients
transliterate to Unicode, normalize to form KC, and encode as
UTF-8 before transfer.

Kurt

References:
- space sensitive ?
  - From: "Susanth TS" <Susanth_TS@sifycorp.com>

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