Pound symbol as part of password not being accepted

Mon Jun 23 10:31:45 EDT 2014

To further muddy the waters, this only seems to be happening for external users. The Shibboleth server is published via TMG providing forms authentication to our backend AD server. 

However, the same web listener is being used for other internal resources which are allowing the test user through with the £ symbol in the password.

Cheers,
Andi

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Morris, Andi
Sent: 23 June 2014 13:47
To: 'Shib Users'
Subject: RE: Pound symbol as part of password not being accepted

Hi,
I've finally had a chance to give this a try and I've edited all the jsp files within C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\idp as per the suggestions below and restarted tomcat, but I still see the issue.

Also I've had a go at the other suggestions put forward:

"You haven't said how you are authenticating to the backend password store (ldap, kerb)   or what theat store is (Active directory, Novell etc)"

 - Apologies, we are authenticating with Active Driectory using LDAP.

" Then you're using tomcat managed authentication. There is some encoding problem with the FormAuthenticator. A simple fix would be to force the character encoding, as explained here :
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/valve.html#Form_Authenticator_Valve"

 - Thanks, that's helpful. Unfortunately it doesn't appear that my Tomcat is set to use forms authentication. Certainly there is no reference to it within my web.xml where I would expect it to be. 

I'm at a total loss here.

Cheers,
Andi

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Manuel Haim
Sent: 14 April 2014 08:32
To: users at shibboleth.net
Subject: Re: Pound symbol as part of password not being accepted

Hi,

initially we had some problems with German umlauts... Here are just three points you could try:

1. Make sure your jsp files are stored as UTF-8.

2. Within each jsp file, add the following line at the top:

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

3. Within the html <head> element of your jsp files, add the line

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Kind regards,
Manuel
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