From 7a21a4578129ddc3797cf387d73a5f3551036269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Petrello <rpetrell@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:53:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] properly encode LDAP DN values on validation

see: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-tower/issues/7554
---
 awx/sso/validators.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/awx/sso/validators.py b/awx/sso/validators.py
index 172c21593c..dd1086a426 100644
--- a/awx/sso/validators.py
+++ b/awx/sso/validators.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def validate_ldap_dn(value, with_user=False):
     else:
         dn_value = value
     try:
-        ldap.dn.str2dn(dn_value)
+        ldap.dn.str2dn(dn_value.encode('utf-8'))
     except ldap.DECODING_ERROR:
         raise ValidationError(_('Invalid DN: %s') % value)