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by **Roland Hilkenbac** » Sat, 07 Apr 2001 19:56:48

Hi,
I have some users here with umlaut-chars in their names like ??. I cannot change their names due to
the NT-Domain Controller responsible for the user logons. Those users cannot connect to their
public_html directory. I suppose this is due to the recoding of these special chars. Is there any
option in httpd.conf for handling the character conversion?

thank you

Roland

by **Rod Smi** » Sat, 07 Apr 2001 22:40:03

[Posted and mailed]

Quote:> Hi,
> I have some users here with umlaut-chars in their names like ??. I cannot change their names due to
> the NT-Domain Controller responsible for the user logons. Those users cannot connect to their
> public_html directory. I suppose this is due to the recoding of these special chars. Is there any
> option in httpd.conf for handling the character conversion?

I don't know about any Apache options, but if the only constraint on
changing the Linux usernames is for compatibility with Samba and the NT
network, you might look into the "username map" parameter to smb.conf.
This specifies a file that contains a mapping of Linux to NetBIOS
usernames. For instance:

neil = "Neil Simpson"
sally = "Sally Jones"

Then, when somebody enters the username "Sally Jones", Samba tries to
match the password against the Linux username "sally". I don't know how
this works with umlauts, but it might be worth a try.

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by **Michael Heimin** » Sun, 08 Apr 2001 03:57:07

> Hi,
> I have some users here with umlaut-chars in their names like ??. I cannot change their names due to
> the NT-Domain Controller responsible for the user logons. Those users cannot connect to their
> public_html directory. I suppose this is due to the recoding of these special chars. Is there any
> option in httpd.conf for handling the character conversion?

Puh, Umlaute are generally not allowed in an URL, may be you could try rewriting
the URL with mod_rewrite, but I would not be surprised if the request wouldn't
come as far as apache is rewriting it with mod_rewrite.

Please respond to this thread & mail, as I'm interested if this works...?

Good luck

Michael Heiming

by **Josef Drexle** » Sun, 08 Apr 2001 04:34:28

Sorry, Roland Hilkenbach, could you repeat that? I wasn't paying attention:

Quote:> Hi,
> I have some users here with umlaut-chars in their names like ??. I cannot change their names due to
> the NT-Domain Controller responsible for the user logons. Those users cannot connect to their
> public_html directory. I suppose this is due to the recoding of these special chars. Is there any
> option in httpd.conf for handling the character conversion?
> thank you
> Roland

Have you tried encoding them with a % sign?

E.g., ? = %E4, ? = %F6, = %FC
(I hope I got these right)

For example try http://www.yourhost.com/~m%FCller/ for user "mller".

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