Passwords

In general, local users — users defined in the passwd file — cannot have passwords containing characters not available in the US-ASCII character set. However:

1. If Polarion server is running on Linux, LDAP users can have non-ACSII passwords, provided the following line exists uncommented in the polarion.properties system configuration properties file:svnkit.http.encoding=UTF-8.

2. If Polarion server is running on Windows, LDAP users can have passwords containing characters from a subset of non-ASCII characters if one of the following lines exists uncommented in the polarion.properties file:

   svnkit.http.encoding=iso-8859-1

   svnkit.http.encoding=<LOCAL_CHARSET>

   The first allows passwords containing characters from the ISO-8859-1 encoding. <LOCAL_CHARSET> in the second example should be replaced with a local Windows encoding such as windows-1250. When one of the encodings is specified, then passwords containing characters from the specified encoding will work.