[project @ robey@lag.net-20080121190842-mq94nybu8qxhw1jl]

for password authentication, only utf-8 encode the password if it's in
unicode. this should let clients work around servers that expect non-utf-8
passwords (possibly because they predate the RFCs).

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/paramiko/auth_handler.py b/paramiko/auth_handler.py
index 8ecd530e..6cf6565f 100644
--- a/paramiko/auth_handler.py
+++ b/paramiko/auth_handler.py
@@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ class AuthHandler (object):
             m.add_string(self.auth_method)
             if self.auth_method == 'password':
                 m.add_boolean(False)
+                password = self.password
+                if isinstance(password, unicode):
+                    password = password.encode('UTF-8')
                 m.add_string(self.password.encode('UTF-8'))
             elif self.auth_method == 'publickey':
                 m.add_boolean(True)