On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 00:12:25 +0200, Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 05:49:04PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >>... >> (2) >> #774046 #520037 >> Which special characters should we allow for account names? >> >> People demand being able to use a dot (which might break scripts using >> chown) and non-ASCII national characters in account names. The regex >> used to verify non-system accounts is configurable, so the policy can be >> locally relaxed at run-time. >> >> For system-accounts, I'd like to stick to ASCII letters, numbers, >> underscores. >>... > >There is a DD with the login 93sam, and this is already outside of >what systemd accepts.[1]
... as "User" option in system files. Not going to begin another systemd flame war today. Bugs like that look like they'll probably only relevant for accounts that services run under. >Non-ASCII characters in account names sound like a lot of breakage >and CVEs to me. Agreed, but people want that. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
