OpenVPN utf8 for password authentication

[dreamteam]

Hi @ all,


I have some drouble with passwords who contain special caracters like "ä,ö, or ü". If one of that caracters contains a password, this caracter wouldn't be passed to the auth-script.....

Is it possible, that I can change the charset for OpenVPN to UTF8. My Hostsystem is Debian Squeeze.


Thanks for any Help.


Regards.

[janjust]

what _IS_ passed to the auth script? as far as I know the password is simply dumped into an env var (or text file, which is preferable) , which the auth-user-pass-verify script can read and process.

There's no easy way of changing openvpn to use UTF-8 (or any other char sets) other than modifying the openvpn sources.

[dreamteam]

<<what _IS_ passed to the auth script?>>

Everything of the password except the caracters "ä,ö,ü".

<<There's no easy way of changing openvpn to use UTF-8 (or any other char sets) other than modifying the openvpn sources.>>

Where do I need to make the changes?


Anybody knows?

[dreamteam]

Has nobody a idea?