X2Go Bug report logs - #566
X2Go Client for Windows cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the username has non-English characters

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Reported by: <trakatelis@uom.gr>

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:55:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: pending

Found in version 4.0.2.1

Fixed in version 4.0.3.0

Done: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Subject: Bug#566: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#566: X2Go Client for Windows 4.0.2.1 cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the local Windows account username has non-Ascii characters
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From: "George Trakatelis" <trakatelis@uom.edu.gr>
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Hi Mike,

First of all, patch bug566.test.v2.patch definitely solves the problem as described in bug #566. 
I have tried successfully both the release and the debug builds you uploaded 
both in Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows 7 Professional SP1 with all the Microsoft updates installed.

Now, with regard to bug #397:

> 1st of all, you were talking about a home dir with non-Ascii characters on the client machine, correct? 

Yes.

> Bug #397 refers to when the user's home folder on the server has non-Ascii characters. 
> That is why the bug is filed against x2goserver.
> Besides, our "fix" for #397 is not to make homedirs with non-Ascii characters "work". 
> Our "fix" is to present a better error message and cleanly abort the session.

I see.

> Normally I would say that we should clone this bug (566) for X2Go Client for Linux. 
> However, the bug report is already extremely long, 
> I think we should just file a new one and link to this one. Could you please file one?

I was only testing an analogous to bug #566 situation in Linux.
To be honest, I had to get round Ubuntu's policy for POSIX user names by using usermod. 
That test revealed that nxproxy (in Ubuntu 14.04) crashes when path names with non-Ascii characters are used,
but is it really a situation that deserves to be filed as a bug? 

I mean it's common for Windows users to have user names in their native language.
On the other hand, Ubuntu (and I suppose Unix in general) dictates 
exactly what characters are permitted in a user name.
If one by-passes this rule, erroneous program behavior may be observed.
Can we call it a bug of the program? I don’t know. You decide!
 
-George

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