NetWorker: External Authority Configuration Errors With 'Unrecognized character escape ',' (code 44)

Summary: NetWorker: External authority configuration fails with 'Unrecognized character escape ',' (code 44).

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Symptoms

Active Directory (AD) or LDAP external authentication is being added to NetWorker.

The authentication resource fails to add with the following error."
 
 'Unrecognized character escape ',' (code 44)
 
Authentication Error: Unrecognized Character Escape
Figure 1: Authentication Error: Unrecognized Character Escape 
 
 

Cause

The Distinguished Name used for the bind account has a comma in the name as seen in the example:
CN=Lastname\, Firstname,OU=OU_name,DC=domain,DC=com

Resolution

Use a Distinguished Name with no comma as the bind account. For example:

CN=Lastname Firstname,OU=OU_name,DC=domain,DC=com

Affected Products

NetWorker

Products

NetWorker Family, NetWorker Series
Article Properties
Article Number: 000213351
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 24 May 2023
Version:  2
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