Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> writes:
> For adduser's next release, I would like to discuss the following > things: > > (1) > Should Debian allow UTF-8 user names in the first place or should we > restrict names for regular users to some us-ascii near set as well? (I > think yes, we should) would allowing utf-8 enable some of the abuse described at https://lwn.net/Articles/874951/ ? as usernames appear in logs and other output (and are passed to all sorts of commands), it seems a bad idea to be too permissive or to change from historic practice by default, even though from a user pov it would be nice to have the option > P.S.: The teams and inviduals working on src:shadow, base-passwd and > adduser would appreciate your help in coding and packaging. Is there a list of "things that need doing"?
