[X2Go-Dev] [X2go-User] Usernames with dashes causes errors?

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Christoffer,

On Di 21 Feb 2012 12:58:08 CET christoffer krakou wrote:

> Hello x2go people :)
>
> i have a server running Ubuntu 11.10 with an x2goserver  
> installation, version 3.0.99.10-0~434~oneiric1, and it is running  
> well and stable.
>
> We had some strange problems, though. We contacted a school, who  
> would help us test the server under daily use, and made some test  
> users for them, called "test-*their name*". When they, and i, tried  
> to log into those users, the client would freeze, no error message  
> or anything. On the server, the x2goagent would run amok, soaking up  
> CPU power. The problem seems to occur only on users with dashes in  
> their names.
>
> Can anyone replicate this? it is quite strange

I can confirm this bug. The '-' sign is a field separator in the  
session ID hash. As the username is part of the session ID all scripts  
will go bonkers with usernames containing a '-'.

That indeed is worth fixing.

Mike

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