Attributes containing special characthers are encoded in base64 by the Linux Access Gateway

  • Document ID:3339249
  • Creation Date:21-Feb-2008
  • Modified Date:26-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      Access Manager (NAM)

Environment

Novell Access Management 3 Support Pack 2
Novell Access Management 3 Support Pack 2 IR1
Novell Access Management 3 Linux Access Gateway
Identity injection policy

Situation

If an attribute used into an dentity injection policy contains one of the following special characters:

' (Apostrophe)
& (Ampercent)
" (Double Quotes)

the Linux Access Gateway will encode it in base64 format and show it encoded in the web page.

Resolution

This issue is fixed in Support Pack 2 IR2 patch.