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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi,
  It turns out that indeed & and < characters cause problems.
This is not really surprising. The PEAP  password is installed via an XML profile. Pushing those characters into the element value makes the XML invalid.
I have been experimenting with escaping them but did not find a way to make the password work correctly. If someone knows about a way of pushing them via the PEAP XML user data profile then I would be happy to hear about that.
At the moment, password installation fails, and the user gets an information about that. The connection profile gets installed properly and at the first connection, Windows will display its standard prompt and you should be able to log on with that.

Unless, we find a way of doing this properly, we will be checking for these characters in the password and if found, display a more meaningful message to the user.

I would like to thank the colleagues from University of Delaware for helping me with the tests.
Yours
Tomasz

W dniu 03.05.2018 o 19:08, Tomasz Wolniewicz pisze:

Hi Mike,

  I will run some tests tomorrow, but I would be quite surprised in # and & characters were causing problems.

Tomasz

W dniu 03.05.2018 o 16:51, Michael Davis pisze:

There have been previous reports of password length issues, and special (high) character
issues, can we presume these have all been addressed in the current CAT release? 

I have a client on a new windows10 surface that has '#' and '&' characters in their password,
and the CAT app reports a credential error message after entering their username/password. 
At one point the machine was trying to authenticate, but it was sending the system's MAC
as the username.   Several IT folks have used CAT on the same system and everything has
worked fine.  Additionally the client can use the same password on an CAT configured iOS
device just fine.

Any additional information I can provide to get someone to look into this?

thanks
mike

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Tomasz Wolniewicz    
          twoln AT umk.pl        http://www.home.umk.pl/~twoln

Uczelniane Centrum Informatyczne   Information&Communication Technology Centre
Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika     Nicolaus Copernicus University,
pl. Rapackiego 1, Torun               pl. Rapackiego 1, Torun, Poland
tel: +48-56-611-2750     fax: +48-56-622-1850       tel kom.: +48-693-032-576

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