Re: Policy on Account creation and deletion?
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:33:35 +0100, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
wrote:
>Marc Haber wrote:
>> (1) Account Name
>> This has been discussed in the past, with no real consensus being
>> reached. It is clear that we should use a namespace that doesn't clash
>> with names that our users my use on their systems since we might
>> remove an account that the local administrator manually created.
>> Possibilities include _foo, foo_, Debian-foo and foo-Debian, with the
>> only package I am aware of that already does this being exim4 (using
>> Debian-exim, and receiving gazillion of bug reports "this account name
>> is ugly").
>
>I wouldn't use names which are unusual (longer than 8 or 9 character,
>consisting of unusual characters).
Can you say what you would use?
Greetings
Marc
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