Unicode logins via NTLM (i.e. exchange) do not work

[Joachim Breitner]

Binary package hint: evolution-data-server

At this site we would like to deploy Evolution to access the Exchange server. As it happens, here are usernames with umlauts (i.e. non-ascii-characters) in use.

This can be fixed by a relatively small change to the NTLM implementation in libsoup and evolution-data-server (negotiating and using Unicode instead of 8-bit “OEM” encoding), example patches are on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576571 and I’m currently packaging updated versions of the packages found in hardy.

Is there a chance that this change will then enter hardy-updates?

Thanks,
Joachim

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your work on that, we will wait for upstream comments before considering those changes though

[Joachim Breitner (nomeata)]

Sure. Patches for libsoup, in debian/patchs format, and against the version in ubuntu hardy, are submited at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576838.

If you do apply these, please mention that development was sponsored by ITOMIG
GmbH and the City of Böblingen.

[Joachim Breitner (nomeata)]

In case anyone stumbles over this and wants to test it, I have uploaded packages to

deb http://packages.itomig.de/ hardy-itomig

[Joachim Breitner (nomeata)]

And this is the patch against the hardy-updates-version of evolution-data-server:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=131425