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Re: special characters in account names



On Tue, 08 Mar 2022 at 17:49:04 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> (2)
> #774046 #520037
> Which special characters should we allow for account names?
> 
> For system-accounts, I'd like to stick to ASCII letters, numbers,
> underscores.

ASCII letters, numbers, underscores and dashes (U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS),
I hope? Lots of system accounts already use dashes, notably www-data
in the base-passwd set.

    smcv


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