Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 08:21:15PM +0200, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> I don't see much problems with single-user machines, especially security
> related. But, think multi-user environments? Imagine, as a non-Chinese
> speaking Westerner, needing to chown a file to a colleague called 陈成.
I would type "chown 陈成 <filename>", pasting the user name from the
written request or probably from /etc/passwd. Or I would ask the system
administrator for a solution.
I see your argument, but I'd also see that as an issue that the system
administrator choosing the user names needs to solve. I's nothing that
we as a distribution should solve.
Greetings
Marc
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