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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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