https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3225
Bug ID: 3225
Summary: usernames and passwords aren't encoded to system
locale
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: -current
Hardware: Other
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: Miscellaneous
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
SSH uses UTF-8 on the wire for usernames and passwords, which means it
can handle pretty much anything. However to make use of those sshd
needs to pass them on to the system via NSS and PAM. Those APIs are
unfortunately poorly specified when it comes to encoding, but are
likely using the local system locale.
Unfortunately OpenSSH doesn't do any conversion, so effectively only
supporting systems with a UTF-8 locale.
This bug is severely mitigated by the fact that most people stick to
the ASCII subset for usernames and passwords, and that these days most
systems have a UTF-8 locale.
However this is not always the case so it would be nice if those users
could also use OpenSSH.
(the same bug is likely in the client when sending the data)
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