Setting in sm.registry file doesn't take effect due to the non-printable char in the file

Products

• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

When try to add "DisallowUsernameInURL=     0x1;  REG_DWORD" to sm.registry, it doesn't take effect.

Cause

There are non-printable chars in the file,

for space, it should be hex 20, C2A0 is UTF-8 nonbreaking space character, but it cannot be recognized by siteminder.

 

The following cat command can also show the non-printable command,

cat -vet sm.registry

Resolution

Edit the file directly on linux command console with vi editer,  remove the white spaces, and manually input the space or tab