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Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser



On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 19:06:57 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth
<timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 6:18 PM Richard Laager <rlaager@debian.org> wrote:
>Please add support for "." so we can use first.last names as user
>names. Other Linux's are already doing this so it should not break
>anything.

Adduser can already be configured to allow that via a documented
interface. We're talking about the default here. The only point where
an account might be created before that configuration possibility
becomes available is the Installer.

Greetings
Marc
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