Description

(My fix is below). When using basic authentication on Apache, where the username contains a non-ascii character, e.g. Bjørn :-), MoinMoin bombs out with a UnicodeDecode error.

Steps to reproduce

1. set up basic authentication (in the appropriate directory or location directive in httpd.conf)

AuthType Basic
AuthName "mywiki"
AuthUserFile /etc/wikiusers
Require valid-user

1. create a user with funny chars

/usr/local/apache2/bin/htpasswd -bcs /etc/wikiusers Bjørn password

1. change wikiconfig.py to use this and autocreate users

from MoinMoin import http
...
    auth = [http]
    user_autocreate = True

Example

Sorry, no example.

Details

dkwikierr.html

Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:46:01 +0000 Platform: Linux www.datakortet.no 2.4.20-31.9smp #1 SMP Tue Apr 13 17:40:10 EDT 2004 i686 Python: Python 2.4.3 (/opt/ActivePython-2.4/bin/python) MoinMoin: Release 1.5.5a (release)

Workaround

Discussion

Plan

• Priority:

• Assigned to: ThomasWaldmann

• Status: fixed in 1.5 by: http://hg.thinkmo.de/moin/1.5?cs=e170e64644e7 - please try this fix and report back on success or failure.

CategoryMoinMoinBugFixed