From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: sshd: computer name's case must match?
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190213162614.GA3718@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV9t=RiBTNsGUwEf6BS9A6b=fMcHeiGD_RDOueKHJ5c9Zwe_g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Feb 13 09:23, Bill Stewart wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 9:10 AM Corinna Vinschen
> <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> > This can't work correctly with OpenSSH. The decision to allow only
> > the correct case in OpenSSH was made back in 2010, because otherwise
> > we would need a lot of special rules in OpenSSH just for Cygwin.
> > Sorry, but that's how it is.
>
> Thanks for the explanation -- this is understandable.
>
> In that case, the former arrangement before the patch was preferable.
>
> That is: For DOMAIN+username or COMPUTERNAME+username, the part before
> the "+" must be UPPERCASE, but the username is not case-sensitive.
>
> IMO This is the simplest and most straightforward arrangement.
No, that was a bug. With case insenitive usernames, the pattern
matching in OpenSSH won't work and you create a potential security
problem.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-12 23:07 Bill Stewart
2019-02-13 1:35 ` Andrey Repin
2019-02-13 10:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-13 12:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-13 15:53 ` Bill Stewart
2019-02-13 16:10 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-13 16:24 ` Bill Stewart
2019-02-13 16:26 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2019-02-13 17:43 ` Bill Stewart
2019-02-13 17:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-13 18:13 ` Bill Stewart
2019-02-13 20:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-13 20:55 ` Bill Stewart
2019-02-13 22:50 ` Andrey Repin
2019-02-14 13:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-14 15:23 ` Bill Stewart
2019-02-14 16:20 ` Bill Stewart
2019-02-21 20:17 ` Bill Stewart
2019-02-22 9:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-22 15:43 ` Bill Stewart
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