(re-added openssh-unix-dev) Oh god, I forgot that UTF-8 is encoded with multiple bytes. My sincerest apologies! I use OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-4+deb7u2, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013, if logfile double encoding is a real problem for OpenSSH developers. My question is fully answered. Thanks! 2017-02-13 11:02 GMT+03:00 Darren Tucker <dtucker@xxxxxxxxxx>: > (re-adding openssh-unix-dev) > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Andrey Klimentev > <andrei650816@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thank you for a quick response. > > > > Indeed, it looks like the OpenSSH client sends it as a string: debug1: > > Authenticating to jump1-m.vt.ru:22 as '\321\205' > > Well that's also passed through the same escaping in log.c. > > > PAM module has no problem with interpreting that value, though. Here is a > > full auth.log: > > > > Feb 13 09:01:02 jump1 sshd[31722]: Invalid user \321\205 from > 192.168.54.109 > > This one is encoded as expected. > > > Feb 13 09:01:02 jump1 sshd[31722]: input_userauth_request: invalid user > > \\321\\205 [preauth] > > This one is double encoded for some reason. What version of sshd are you > using? > > > Feb 13 09:01:06 jump1 sshd[31722]: Failed password for invalid user > \321\205 > > from 192.168.54.109 port 43826 ssh2 > > This one is also as expected. Anyway, that value is > > $ perl -le 'printf "%x %x\n", 0321, 0205' > d1 85 > > which seems to be the UTF8 encoding of U+0445: > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0445/index.htm > > > Naturally, the question now arises: how does a client encode it and why > does > > PAM correctly decode it and write it to the syslog properly? > > With the exception of one instance of double-encoding in the logging, > it seems to be doing what you'd expect. > > -- > Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) > GPG key 11EAA6FA / A86E 3E07 5B19 5880 E860 37F4 9357 ECEF 11EA A6FA (new) > Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience > usually comes from bad judgement. > -- С уважением, Андрей Климентьев. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev