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Bug 255726 - failure to authenticate if £ in password
failure to authenticate if £ in password
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: Evolution Exchange
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Connector
1.4.6
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Connector Maintainer
Ximian Connector QA
evolution[passwords]
: 329644 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 327514
 
 
Reported: 2004-03-17 21:35 UTC by Olly Stephens
Modified: 2012-02-02 14:39 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Olly Stephens 2004-03-17 21:35:56 UTC 
Description of Problem:

  If a user's password contains a £ (GB pound sign), the connector setup
  fails to authenticate him/her.  Logging in using OWA from a web browser
  works no problem.  May also be a problem with other non-ascii characters;
  have not tested.

Steps to reproduce the problem:

  1. change your exchange (AD) password to one with a £ sign in
  2. try and setup an exchange account in evolution (or try and
     run ximian-connector-setup)

Actual Results:

  Fails to authenticate user.

Expected Results:

  Succesful authentication.

How often does this happen? 

  Every time.

Additional Information:

  Problem actually found in 1.4.6 but that isn't an option yet on this
  screen.
Comment 1 Olly Stephens 2004-03-19 15:10:13 UTC 
Changed version to 1.4.6 as it's now an available option
Comment 2 Sushma Rai 2006-01-04 04:52:36 UTC 
Bug #317601 states "_" in the password is also not working.
Comment 3 Sushma Rai 2006-05-12 06:44:52 UTC 
*** Bug 329644 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Katie 2006-12-01 16:37:48 UTC 
I'm experiencing this problem with an Exchange account where the password was '1hu.+Fxl'.  This is running Evolution 2.8.1 under Ubuntu Edgy Eft.  Please let me know if I should file this as a separate bug -- maybe the period character is special in a different way from the GB pound character?
Comment 5 André Klapper 2012-01-04 10:50:20 UTC 
This bug was reported against a version that is now not supported anymore. Could you please check if the problem that you reported here still happens with a recent version of Evolution (like 3.2 or 3.0) by reporting back? Thanks in advance!
Also note that the package "evolution-exchange" is deprecated nowadays. Similar functionality is now provided by "evolution-mapi" and "evolution-ews" packages.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2012-02-02 14:39:03 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no updated information has been provided.

Please reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of Evolution (currently this means: preferably version 3.2.x) and provide the information that was asked for in the previous comment.

Again thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed for the version that you originally used when reporting this problem.