#611 - X2Go Client for Windows cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the username has characters from languages other than the system locale

X2Go Bug report logs - #611
X2Go Client for Windows cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the username has characters from languages other than the system locale

Reported by: <trakatelis@uom.gr>

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

Severity: normal

Found in version 4.0.2.1

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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Hi Mike#2, On So 07 Sep 2014 15:23:22 CEST, Michael DePaulo wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 6:04 AM, George Trakatelis > <trakatelis@uom.edu.gr> wrote: > [...] >> >> a. Installed German keyboard. Hit ';' to produce an accented letter >> and -to my surprise- got ö. So I thought ölexandr was the right >> name to test for username. >> >> b. Created user ölexandr and logged in as that user. >> The patch did not work, as you mentioned. >> >> c. As toLocal8Bit() returns the local 8-bit representation of a string, >> I changed the system locale for non-unicode programs to German. >> Now the patch worked! >> >> I think the patch solves the problem for the Windows users who use English >> as a foreign language and prefer having (non-Ascii) usernames in >> their native language. >> >> -George >> >> PS. A better title for the bug would be >> >> 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 > > Hi Mike#1 and George, > > 1. What do you think of using toUtf8() instead? I am hoping that will > fix the bug regardless of the locale. > > I tried changing it to that (bug566.utf8.test.patch), but it still did > not fix this bug with the greek username on my system with the locale > set to English. It did not introduce a regression for my ASCII user > account at least. > > If libssh needs to be recompiled for Unicode, I can do that. I just > recompiled it for bug #590. > > FYI: This is the API we are calling: > http://api.libssh.org/stable/group__libssh__session.html#ga7a801b85800baa3f4e16f5b47db0a73d I am getting the suspicion, that this is a libssh issue. X2Go Client and libssh should communicate via UTF-8 (because it is _the_ encoding that applications use internally, nowadays) and libssh should handle whatever conversion (probably to UTF-16 wide string?) is necessary for creating files, being aware of usernames, etc. > 2. in sshmasterconnection.cpp, we also set "SSH_OPTIONS_USER" . I > think that we should also change its value from to.Ascii() to > toLocal8Bit() or toUtf8(). bug566.test.v2.patch has this change for > toLocal8Bit(), and bug566.utf8.test.patch has it for toUtf8(). Same thing. SSH_OPTIONS_USER should be set as UTF-8 and libssh should convert to whatever encoding is needed. Greets, Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb

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X2Go Bug report logs - #611 X2Go Client for Windows cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the username has characters from languages other than the system locale

X2Go Bug report logs - #611
X2Go Client for Windows cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the username has characters from languages other than the system locale