Re: special characters in account names
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 18:31:48 +0000, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
wrote:
>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.
Of course. I would break a lot of my own packages otherwise ;-)
Greetings
Marc
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