On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Ryan Shaw wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My Windows XP login name is in Japanese: $B%i%$%"%s(B
>
> As this is not a legal UNIX username AFAIK, I have
> the following in /etc/profile:
>
> export USER="ryan"
> export HOME="/home/ryan"
>
> I also changed the relevant line in /etc/passwd
> from this:
>
> $B%i%$%"%s(B:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513
> :U-ICHIGO\$B%i%$%"%s(B,S-1-5-21-3595182962-3425862410-625958100-1004
> :/home/$B%i%$%"%s(B:/bin/bash
>
> to this:
>
> ryan:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513
> :U-ICHIGO\$B%i%$%"%s(B,S-1-5-21-3595182962-3425862410-625958100-1004
> :/home/ryan:/bin/bash
>
> Note that I changed the username and home, but left the
> U-ICHIGO\$B%i%$%"%s(B part before the SID untouched.
>
> My CYGWIN environment variable is set to "tty ntsec".
>
> This seems to be working OK, except that password-based
> authentication is not working when I connect to my Cygwin sshd.
> Publickey authentication DOES work, however.
>
> I was wondering if perhaps the Japanese string in the
> additional pw_gecos field is the cause of the problem
> with password authentication.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Ryan
Well, if your U-ICHIGO\.... part is in Unicode, I can see why it would
confuse the passwd parsing routines (in particular, internal_getpwsid()),
which only deal with regular 1-byte characters. I'm not sure, though,
that changing the name part of the gecos field would make password
authentication work -- perhaps Pierre or Corinna would comment on this.
Igor
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