jmbredal
commented
7 years ago (by mbrekkevold) Traceback looks like this on NAV 3.14:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 100, in get_response response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/nav/web/webfront/views.py", line 91, in login return do_login(request)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/nav/web/webfront/views.py", line 114, in do_login account = auth.authenticate(username, password)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/nav/web/auth.py", line 144, in authenticate auth = ldapauth.authenticate(username, password)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/nav/web/ldapauth.py", line 124, in authenticate user.bind(password)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/nav/web/ldapauth.py", line 177, in bind self.ldap.simple_bind_s(user_dn, password)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 206, in simple_bind_s msgid = self.simple_bind(who,cred,serverctrls,clientctrls)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 200, in simple_bind return self._ldap_call(self._l.simple_bind,who,cred,EncodeControlTuples(serverctrls),EncodeControlTuples(clientctrls))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 96, in _ldap_call result = func(*args,**kwargs)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf8' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
<ModPythonRequest path:/index/login/, GET:<QueryDict: {}>, POST:<QueryDict: {u'origin': [u'/report/interfaces?netboxid=29'], u'username': [u'zaphod'], u'password': [u'\xf8l\xf8l\xf8l\xe6\xf8\xe6\xf8s\xe5\xf8f']}>, COOKIES:{'nav_sessid': 'REDACTED'} META:{'AUTH_TYPE': None, 'CONTENT_LENGTH': '129', 'CONTENT_TYPE': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1', 'HTTP_ACCEPT': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip,deflate,sdch', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE': 'no,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6', 'HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL': 'max-age=0', 'HTTP_CONNECTION': 'keep-alive', 'HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH': '129', 'HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'HTTP_COOKIE': 'nav_sessid=REDACTED', 'HTTP_DNT': '1', 'HTTP_HOST': 'nav.example.org', 'HTTP_ORIGIN': 'https://nav.example.org', 'HTTP_REFERER': 'https://nav.example.org/index/login/?origin=/report/interfaces%3Fnetboxid%3D29', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.95 Safari/537.36', 'PATH_INFO': u'/index/login/', 'PATH_TRANSLATED': None, 'QUERY_STRING': None, 'REMOTE_ADDR': 'REDACTED', 'REMOTE_HOST': None, 'REMOTE_IDENT': None, 'REMOTE_USER': None, 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'POST', 'SCRIPT_NAME': '', 'SERVER_NAME': 'nav.example.org', 'SERVER_PORT': 443, 'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1', 'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'mod_python'}>
The LDAP authentication mechanism in NAV appears to encode the entered username and password unicode strings as ASCII when sending them to the LDAP server. This would fail miserably for any user with non-ASCII characters in their username or password.
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