[python-ldap] AD objectGUID conversion to string

[Michael Ströder]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>>> Data in AD is typically utf-16 encoded.
>>
>> No! The LDAP interface of MS AD is LDAPv3 compliant and therefore uses UTF-8
>> for LDAP syntax DirectoryString.
> 
> Well, to be specific I referred to data _in_ AD, not data _on the wire_. To be honest
> it wasn't even relevant in this case but more for cases like setting unicodePwd.

Yes, 'unicodePwd' is very badly designed. Double quotes as single-byte ASCII
chars enclosing the UTF-16 low-endian password value. Yuck!

But all other DirectoryString values are simply UTF-8.

Ciao, Michael.

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