non ASCII characters in LDAP attributes

[dominiquevocat]

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

[MuS · Accepted solution]

Hi dominiquevocat,

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

Cheers, MuS

[MuS]

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

cheers

[ahall_splunk]

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.

[dominiquevocat]

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.