[X2Go-Dev] Arguable bug: usernames starting with digits

[Ulrich Sibiller]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de> wrote:
> I think there even exists a bugreport for this.
>
> I'm reluctant to allow all-numeric user names because of the ambiguity and the
> fact that we use the user name later for other stuff (e.g., for executing
> commands as the user account that started the session.) Assuming, that "the
> system libraries will get this stuff right" isn't very comforting in this kind
> of edge case.

Well, Norman's point of "the user is already authenticated at the
point where x2go kicks in" is valid. So why check the username at all?

Uli