cannot connect when username contains colons

[silvestre]

I'm trying to connect to a system where the user names include colons. While ssh and sftp use the whole string before the @ as user name, sshfs stops at the first : and uses the preceding string as host name.

ssh cf:[email protected]
cf:[email protected]'s password:

sshfs cf:[email protected] ~/tmp/sshfs -o sshfs_debug,port=2222,debug
SSHFS version 2.8
FUSE library version: 2.9.4
nullpath_ok: 0
nopath: 0
utime_omit_ok: 0
executing <ssh> <-x> <-a> <-oClearAllForwardings=yes> <-oport=2222> <-2> <cf> <-s> <sftp>

[Nikratio]

Thanks for the report! I'll take a look,

[Nikratio]

I don't think there's a way to fix this. Consider e.g. jeff:/home/@tags/work/? With your interpretation, this would be parsed as the user "jeff:/home/" connecting to the host @tags/work - but it should be the default user connecting to the directory @tags/work on host jeff.

[Nikratio]

Closing this for now, feel free to re-open if I missed something. I think as a general rule, having usernames with colons in them is a bad idea.