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Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:30 pm**

We use Integrator's OpenLDAP to authenticate users with Active Directory.

For the most part this works great, but we are running into an issue with users that have passwords with special characters like a parentheses.

The character in the password seems to blowing up the command.

The auth code looks like, where DN is the distinguished name that has been looked up via the SAMAccountName.

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#JSMXCMD := ('BIND HOST(&1) DN(&2) PASSWORD(&3)').Substitute( #LDAPServer #DN #wk_Password )
use builtin(JSMX_COMMAND) with_args(#JSMXHDLE #JSMXCMD) to_get(#JSMXSTS #JSMXMSG)
if (#COM_OWNER.Check( #JSMXSTS #JSMXMSG ) = False)
return
endif

Is there a way to escape the password or another way of dealing with password with special characters?

Thanks,
Joe

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2020 4:14 pm**

Joe,

I might be missing something, but i usually use double-quotes to escape things like passwords:

so using something like #jsmxcmd := ('BIND HOST(&1) DN(&2) PASSWORD("&3")').substitute(#Server #DN #Password)

usually that gets the password 'escaped'....

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#JSMXCMD := ('BIND HOST(&1) DN(&2) PASSWORD("&3")').Substitute( #LDAPServer #DN #wk_Password )
use builtin(JSMX_COMMAND) with_args(#JSMXHDLE #JSMXCMD) to_get(#JSMXSTS #JSMXMSG)
if (#COM_OWNER.Check( #JSMXSTS #JSMXMSG ) = False)
return
endif

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:23 am**

Brendan,

I can't tell you how long I spent looking at that trying to figure out how to do this.
For whatever reason, I never thought I could just wrap it double quotes.

That was exactly what I needed. lol

Thanks for replying.
Joe

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