Error when login name has non-ascii characters

[kloining@…]

"Everything" is set to UTF-8, but trac returns error error when login name has non-ascii characters.

raceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/trac/web/main.py", line 406, in dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/trac/web/main.py", line 183, in dispatch
    req.perm = PermissionCache(self.env, req.authname)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/trac/perm.py", line 263, in __init__
    self.perms = PermissionSystem(env).get_user_permissions(username)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/trac/perm.py", line 227, in get_user_permissions
    for perm in self.store.get_user_permissions(username):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/trac/perm.py", line 117, in get_user_permissions
    if user in subjects:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

[cboos]

• What version of Trac are you using?
• Which web front-end do you use?

[kloining@…]

I'm using version 0.10.4 "from" Debian Lenny(testing).

Is this the thing you mean about web front-end?: default_handler = WikiModule? I've changed nothing since install.

[eblot]

Replying to kloining@powadezign.no:

Is this the thing you mean about web front-end?:

One of the following:

• mod_python
• tracd
• cgi /fastcgi

[eblot]

I meant, one among the following web front-ends

[Kristian Løining <kloining@…>]

Replying to eblot:

I meant, one among the following web front-ends

Ah. I first started with CGI, and are now using mod_python. Both returned same error.

[hans@…]

I just want to confirm this.

I'm using Trac 0.10.4, Apache 2.2.8, mod_python

Apache uses authnz_ldap to authenticate users from a w2k3 active directory server. The login-username gets replaced by the real name of the user, by using the AuthLDAPRemoteUserAttribute displayName option in authnz_ldap. (That's really nice feature by the way!)

Trac breaks with the same error/traceback as the OP posted above, when the real name contains non-7bits-ascii characters.

[osimons]

#7714 closed as duplicate.

[cboos]

#7325 closed as duplicate. There it mentions that the problem happens with tracd on windows, so it should be pretty easy for me to reproduce ;-)