Re: Hashes in scp usernames (OpenSSH bug 472)

2008-11-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I've come upon OpenSSH bug 472, whereby scp refuses usernames containing a '#' character, dieing with 'invalid user name'. Both rsync and ssh accept such usernames, and after looking at /usr/src/crypto/openssh/scp.c, it would appear that scp also allows such

Hashes in scp usernames (OpenSSH bug 472)

2008-11-09 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I've come upon OpenSSH bug 472, whereby scp refuses usernames containing a '#' character, dieing with 'invalid user name'. Both rsync and ssh accept such usernames, and after looking at /usr/src/crypto/openssh/scp.c, it would appear that scp also allows such usernames for the source,