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Hi Guys, I''ve got a rails application that uses activeldap to authenticate users. Its been working great for about 6 months now, but a user from mexico started using it recently, but can''t seem to login. I''ve narrowed it down to the fact that his password contains a ñ character in it. This problem is also present in a test user account I''ve setup. ActiveLDAP

Any suggestions on how best to gain access to session-type information while in an ActiveRecord callback, such as after_save? I am encrypting some information in the database, using the generalized encryption/decryption handler in "Agile Web Development With Rails" (p 375ff). I got it working, and now I want to reference a session field (a user PIN) which is NOT stored in the