Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@mister-muffin.de> writes:

> But my 2 cents on the topic are: Lets please allow more than ascii in
> usernames. I find it very uncomfortable every time I have to tell my students
> that sorry, you somehow have to manage writing your name using American letters
> because that's all we have after half a century of Computers being a thing...

You are confusing usernames and names.  Different concepts with
different rules.  Let's just hope you never get two students with the
same name.


Bjørn