[X2Go-Dev] Bug#611: Bug#611: X2Go Client for Windows cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the username has characters from languages other than the system locale

[Stefan Baur]

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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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