topic Re: non ASCII characters in LDAP attributes in All Apps and Add-ons

non ASCII characters in LDAP attributes

dominiquevocat — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:11:54 GMT

when using ldapsearch from SA-ldapsearch i have the following issue:

If a text field contains non 7-bit ASCII characters (like "é" in "René") then the Splunk Result has as field value.

Is this configurable?

The LDAP Directory we use is eDirectory 8.8.1

Re: non ASCII characters in LDAP attributes

ahall_splunk — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:16:03 GMT

We have to explicitly decode several attributes for this to work. Currently (v1.1.13 of the app), we support a small list, like fullName, cn, givenName, sn. If you want more, we need to know which ones.

Note that we do not support Novell eDirectory. If you want to submit a request, we test only against Active Directory.

Re: non ASCII characters in LDAP attributes

MuS — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:23:43 GMT

Hi dominiquevocat,

I will soon upload a working LDAP App that will handle that ....

Cheers, MuS

Re: non ASCII characters in LDAP attributes

dominiquevocat — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:24:16 GMT

Hi, we had filed a bug and it was decided not to implement it so yeah, never mind. We worked with MuS (see below) to implement a python based solution.

Re: non ASCII characters in LDAP attributes

MuS — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:56:17 GMT

And here it is http://apps.splunk.com/app/1852/

cheers