Re: ssh-host-config produces Win32 error 1057 on systems with non-ASCII computer names

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar  6 12:26, Johan Ehnberg wrote:
> Dears,
> 
> I am running a fresh install of the latest stable cygwin on a fresh
> install of vanilla Windows 7 64-bit Finnish, with computer name
> "KÃyttÃjÃ-PC". When I run 'ssh-host-config -y' the service
> installation phase fails on the Finnish equivalent of "cygrunsrv:
> Error installing a service: CreateService:  Win32 error 1057: The
> account name is invalid or does not exist, or the password is
> invalid for the account name specified."
> 
> Changing the computer name to just "PC", rebooting and retrying
> works around the problem. Localized output from Windows in cygwin
> with non-ASCII characters still looks awful by default though :)
> 
> Running 'ssh-host-config -y -d' succeeds in installing the service
> with warnings, and as cyg_server is not taking over incoming privsep
> logins it still does not work. A wild guess is that the non-ASCII
> computer name somehow affects the user creation or granting
> privileges.
> 
> As a side note, non-ASCII user names work well and are not affected
> by this. As long as proper code pages are consistently used,
> non-ASCII user names are a challenge to be handled primarily between
> different systems consoles and file formats.
> 
> I thought I'd throw this out there as could not find earlier
> messages about this. At least someone googling can find the
> workaround. Non-ASCII host/computer names are often not well handled
> elsewhere anyway, so there are more reasons than this to avoid them.

This is the fault of the cygrunsrv tool, which still uses the
ANSI variants of the Win32 API.  The default codeset under Cygwin
is UTF-8, but that doesn't match your Windows ANSI codepage 1252,
so that's what probably goes wrong.

Cygrunsrv has to be changed to use the UNICODE variants of the
Windows Service API to get that working.


Corinna

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