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Am 06.11.2014 um 15:04 schrieb cwe:

Is it possible to "echo <username> | md5sum"? In this way all input will be converted to UTF-8. Finally the path will look something like c:\Users\0ffc01acb1953149574dd9f3a4f8a662\ssh\known_hosts.

Or will this lead to inconsistency?

This will cause severe breakage.

C:\Users is the system-wide folder for Windows user's individual home directories, corresponding to /home/ on a Linux system. Every single Windows application will expect to find user files in C:\Users\<username>\somesubdir.

Your suggestion is akin to creating a directory /home/<md5hashofusername>/somesubdir on a Linux system - *in parallel* to the regular user homedirectory /home/<username>.

This probably wouldn't even work because no ordinary user should have write permission in C:\Users\ (like in /home/), only in the subdirectory <username>, so the attempt to create that folder <md5hashofusername> would fail due to lack of permissions.

So no, please don't do that.

• -Stefan

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