Re: OpenSSH: spaces in user name

In comp.security.ssh Chuck <skilover_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Darren Tucker wrote:
On 2006-03-14, Chuck <skilover_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I thought I remembered reading somewhere that one of the recent patches
to OpenSSH disabled the ability to connect with a user name that
contains spaces. Am I remembering correctly?

Not exactly. The problem was spaces in usernames passed to scp:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1164

'ssh "foo bar@somehost"' still works, and in the next version the User
directive in the config file (and any other directive for that matter)
can also have spaces if it's surrounded by double-quotes:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482

Also does it affect users authenticated with a public key?

Yes. Username handling in the client is is independant of the auth type.


Is the problem in the client or server? If it's in the client I have
nothing to worry about. I'm using Putty for tunnels, and winscp3 for
sftp. I don't use scp at all. Not with the username that includes spaces
anyway.

Shrug, spaces in username are one of the worst things I could
think of for a username, could well be a M$ "invention"?

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