Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian
On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 08:41:06PM +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Marc Haber, on 2024-12-03:
> > I'll probably deprecate --allow-bad-names in favor of something that
> > doesn't use the word "bad" (suggestions appreciated). Otoh, adduser in
> > the Red Hat World uses --badname to allow such names as well.
>
> The problem is not the name, but the character set, so perhaps
> --allow-bad-characters will be better perceived. If you want to
> also avoid "bad", maybe try --allow-ambiguous-characters, or
> --allow-extended-character-set? The last one is perhaps a bit
> long winded, but also sounds more accurate than the rest. What
> do you think of these approaches?
Extended sounds good, maybe even "unicode"? or "international"?
Greetings
Marc
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