The operating system is a modified version of debian so there probably are modifications in sshd. Thank you for your responses; I just wanted to make sure I wasn't loosing it. :) On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Darren Tucker <dtucker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 6:02 PM, G. G. <gwartney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> One of my unfortunate users decided to put a slash at the end of his >> username "username/". Is there any way to use ssh to specify that the >> slash >> is part of the username? I've tried every combination of escape characters >> that I can think of but sshd always removes the slash. > > > I just built stock openssh-5.5p1's on a recent Fedora, and sshd actually > accepts it if you manually edit /etc/{passwd,shadow}, both with and without > PAM enabled. > > $ ssh -p 2022 -l "testuser/" localhost > Password: > [...] > USER=testuser/ > LOGNAME=testuser/ > > Sorry, but whatever the problem is, it's not in the stock sshd. There may > be some modification in the sshd, or it could be some other problem. > > -- > Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) > GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 > Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience > usually comes from bad judgement. > _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev