Web interface password -- characters permitted

[Matt Broughton]

Mac OS X 10.4.7 with CUPS 1.1.23

There was a recent thread on the Apple discussion boards about what 
characters are acceptable in a password.  It would appear that any 
"non-English" character used in password will not be accepted by the web 
interface authentication.  

I tried setting an administrator's password using Greek letters "ååçç" 
(unicode characters \303\247\303\247\303\245\303\245).  This works for 
logging into the user's account in OS X and for 'su' or 'sudo' in the 
Terminal.  Trying to access the administration section of the CUPS web 
interface does not work however.  The error log showed "IsAuthenticated: 
pam_authenticate () returned 7 (Authorization failure)!"

Is this a limitation of the CUPS?  It appears that printer queues can 
have a name using these characters.  It is just the web authentication 
that fails.

Matt

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Matt Broughton
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