Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian
On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 01:36:48AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> POSIX says "if you want your applications to be portable, do not use any
> funny characters in usernames":
But we are not writing applications, we are a distribution. Anything
that works with the software we distribute is fine.
> A string that is used to identify a user; see also 3.407 User Database.
> To be portable across systems conforming to POSIX.1-2024, the value is
> composed of characters from the portable filename character set.
If a local admin wants their local user database (hence, /etc/passwd or
an LDAP diretory) to work with non-Debian OSses, they need to take care
about which accounts they create. I don't think that we should restrict
local admins who don't need that kind of portability.
Greetings
Marc
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