From d26f2b0f69724c971ad0952509af4ab23363fe5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: PCoder <purple.coder@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:29:42 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Normalize/convert ascii/ignore unicode characters for
 homeDirectory

---
 utils/ldap_manager.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/utils/ldap_manager.py b/utils/ldap_manager.py
index ee190732..fadcdbbe 100644
--- a/utils/ldap_manager.py
+++ b/utils/ldap_manager.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import hashlib
 import random
 import ldap3
 import logging
+import unidecode
 
 from django.conf import settings
 
@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ class LdapManager:
                     "uidNumber": [str(uidNumber)],
                     "gidNumber": [str(settings.LDAP_CUSTOMER_GROUP_ID)],
                     "loginShell": ["/bin/bash"],
-                    "homeDirectory": ["/home/{}".format(user).encode("utf-8")],
+                    "homeDirectory": ["/home/{}".format(unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', user).encode('ascii','ignore'))],
                     "mail": email.encode("utf-8"),
                     "userPassword": [self._ssha_password(
                         password.encode("utf-8")