Username has a slash at the end

[G. G.]

The operating system is a modified version of debian so there probably are
modifications in sshd. Thank you for your responses; I just wanted to make
sure I wasn't loosing it.  :)

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 6:02 PM, G. G. <gwartney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One of my unfortunate users decided to put a slash at the end of his
>> username "username/". Is there any way to use ssh to specify that the
>> slash
>> is part of the username? I've tried every combination of escape characters
>> that I can think of but sshd always removes the slash.
>
>
> I just built stock openssh-5.5p1's on a recent Fedora, and sshd actually
> accepts it if you manually edit /etc/{passwd,shadow}, both with and without
> PAM enabled.
>
> $ ssh -p 2022 -l "testuser/" localhost
> Password:
> [...]
>   USER=testuser/
>   LOGNAME=testuser/
>
> Sorry, but whatever the problem is, it's not in the stock sshd.  There may
> be some modification in the sshd, or it could be some other problem.
>
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