Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian
On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:13:08 -0500, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
>Yeah, good point. If the scope is going to include passwd entries
>that are distributed via network protocols like LDAP, then we need to
>worry about sites that support other Linux distributions beyond just
>Debian --- or for that matter, sites that need to support Linux as
>well as legacy Unix systems like AIX or Solaris.
Even if we had full Unicode support for anything using /etc/passwd, a
site is always free to restict itself to us-ascii usernames. Same with
POSIX, in my understanding we would still be POSIX compliant if we had
full Unicode support for usernames, because POSIX defines the minimum
of things a system MUST support, but it is always free to support
more. Or, at least I hope so.
But things are moving by shadow upstream taking a user-hostile stance,
willing to take away freedom. I must be fine with that because I
cannot change it. But I don't need to like it.
Greetings
Marc
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