* Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> [241202 09:43]: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 06:55:09PM -0500, nick black wrote: > > Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: > > > > * any upstream tool could say "bad idea" and refuse patches, > > > > requiring their long term management, > > > > > > Depending of how important this tool is, we could get away without > > > patching and probably not even documenting this failure. > > > > This kind of attitude seems self-defeating. Despite being > > *strongly* in favor of this effort, I would oppose it if were > > strictly a Debian thing. We can inspire the move, but going it > > alone seems a recipe for present and future pain (think SSHing > > from/to Debian and a non-Debian machine). > > I bet that other distribtions will also allow me to useradd an UTF-8 > name today. I don't think that we have patched useradd to allow this.
We did. Debian carries (since "forever") a patch in useradd to turn off most name checking. (Trying to) remove this patch is what started this all. Observe: [root@cc65635fbf00 /]# cat /etc/os-release NAME="Fedora Linux" VERSION="40 (Container Image)" ... [root@cc65635fbf00 /]# useradd för useradd: invalid user name 'för': use --badname to ignore Not sure if mjt brought it up yet, but the sendmail interface will also need some solution for utf8 usernames (=email address local parts). However, it seems some sendmail implementations already cannot cope with utf8 gecos fields. Chris
