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Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian



On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:10:14 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler
<zeha@debian.org> wrote:
>To me, the question is more, why do we have a flag that, if used,
>allows you to break /etc/{passwd,shadow,group,gshadow} completely?

The user-oriented solution would be to identify the things that break
/etc/passwd and to forbid these. Just forbidding everything is heading
the wrong direction.

Greetings
Marc
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