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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I should have stated that I’m running Shibboleth IDP 2.3.8 on a Windows 2008R2 box. Shibboleth is running through Tomcat 6.0 on Apache 2.2.17.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> users-bounces@shibboleth.net
[mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Morris, Andi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 26 September 2013 13:49<br>
<b>To:</b> users@shibboleth.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Pound symbol as part of password not being accepted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve just come across an odd problem here where a user could log into all our remote resources apart from the shibboleth authenticated ones. Upon investigation I could see in the Apache ssl_443_error_log file that the user was being denied
access with an “unknown user name or bad password” error. I could see that the username being typed was correct from the same log file, and just on a hunch I decided to change the password of the user from something that contained the £ symbol to something
that didn’t, and suddenly access was granted.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anybody know the reason for this, and how I can resolve it?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Andi Morris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">IT Security Officer<br>
Cardiff Metropolitan University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">T: 02920 205720<br>
E: <a href="mailto:amorris@cardiffmet.ac.uk">amorris@cardiffmet.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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