Two-Factor Authentication With Google Authenticator And LDAP

Introduction Earlier this year Google released their time-based one-time password (TOTP) solution named Google Authenticator. A TOTP is a single-use code with a finite lifetime that can be...
Published Dec 20, 2011
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Apr 26, 2014
If your LDAP password contains special characters the HTTP will failed even if you did enter the good password. To support special characters you will have to decode the password ($pass) before the HTTP authentication. Here it the part of the code that i modified:

 

set pdecode [URI::decode $pass]

 

AUTH::username_credential $auth_id $user

 

AUTH::password_credential $auth_id $pass

 

AUTH::password_credential $auth_id $pdecode