On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 02:19:51PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > I think one good idea that we should certainly adopt from > <https://systemd.io/USER_NAMES/> is its separation between "strict mode" > (the naming convention that it encourages for all uses, and enforces > when a user is created via systemd tools) and "relaxed mode" (the much > less strict naming convention that systemd requires for names created by > non-systemd tools). Because of the differences between those two modes, > systemd is quite conservative in what its own tools will emit but a > lot more liberal in what it will accept, and that seems like a good > principle here, even if the specific rules that Debian chooses end up > differing from those that systemd has chosen.
Yes. Especially we need to note that systemd strict mode is even stricter than what we currently allow for system accounts. I also don't like that this is not configurable, especially regarding systemd-homed which affects the account names of regular users. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
