Bug#319639: can not specify usernames containing space in .ssh/config

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

forwarded 319639 http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482
tags 319639 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 12:50:09PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Package: openssh-client
> Version: 1:4.1p1-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> I use SSH to connect to a Windows system running the Cygwin package of the
> SSH server (which is openssh 3.9p1, I think).  Usernames on this system are
> derived from the Windows login, so mine is "Daniel Jacobowitz".  Using ssh
> "Daniel Jacobowitz"@jahdo works fine on the command line.  But I can't put
> this in .ssh/config; the parser uses strdelim to read the username, which
> means it ends after the first whitespace.

This has been fixed upstream in 4.4; I'll be packaging 4.6 shortly.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]