Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:08:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Ryan Shaw cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Japanese Windows login name and SSH In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Ryan Shaw wrote: > Hello, > > My Windows XP login name is in Japanese: ライアン > > 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: > > ライアン:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513 > :U-ICHIGO\ライアン,S-1-5-21-3595182962-3425862410-625958100-1004 > :/home/ライアン:/bin/bash > > to this: > > ryan:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513 > :U-ICHIGO\ライアン,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\ライアン 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/