RE: [squid-users] spaces in object names on ldap

Usernames in the login process is encoded with URL encoding, so "Tomas
Palfi" becomes Tomas%20Palfi and "test tp" becomes test%20tp

Regards
Henrik

fre 2003-02-28 klockan 15.08 skrev Tomas Palfi:
> when i test squid_ldap_auth from a command line and i pass it for example test (as login name) and test (as password) then it replies OK. But when i pass it object with a space such as test tp with password test it returns ERR.
>
> The test tp is an example of an object from active directory domain.somewhere.co.uk/Users/test tp - this is known to active directory as an object in Users.
>
> thankyou
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
> Sent: 28 February 2003 14:03
> To: Tomas Palfi
> Cc: Squid "Mailing Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] spaces in object names on ldap
>
>
> Not entirely sure on your question.. usernames is never passed on the
> commandline.
>
> There is a patch for Squid-2.5 to allow command line arguments with
> spaces. See http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/. For
> earlier versions you need to put the arguments in a small shell script
> wrapper calling the helper with the correct arguments.
>
> Usernames in the login process is encoded with URL encoding, so "Tomas
> Palfi" becomes Tomas%20Palfi, but this does not apply to command line
> arguments.
>
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
>
> fre 2003-02-28 klockan 13.51 skrev Tomas Palfi:
> > to all,
> >
> > when testing from a command line, i can only authenticate user's login name against active directory that has no space in the object, however when authenticating user who's login name is one string only, but object name includes space (ie. first last) will not be authenticated.
> >
> > how do i escape the space on a command line or when running squid_ldap_auth from squid.conf?
> > thankyou
> >
> > --
> > tp
> >
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Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
MARA Systems AB, Sweden