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Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian



On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 18:08:33 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler
<zeha@debian.org> wrote:
>I echo Alejandro's concerns. We should stop having the flag
>completely, not encourage using it.

I violently disagree. But I have to accept this.

>IOW: if we move towards better character support, we need to do that
>by allowing it always. Same for longer names.

I think that our distinction between system users and "normal" users
is fine. Noone needs a package generating "weird" user names.

Greetings
Marc
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