Hi Marc, Marc Haber, on 2024-12-03: > thank you all for your contributions to this discussion. I have now > finally understood¹ that it is not enough to try creating an UTF-8 > encoded user name and see that it correctly shows up in /etc/passwd to > declare UTF-8 support. Please forgive me for not replying to all of you > in this thread individually, I have read everything and if I didnt cater > for your arguments in this message please feel free to remind me.
Thank you for having taken the time to investigate this issue, as a person concerned, I much appreciated it. Let's see whether I can contribute one last useful item. > I'll probably deprecate --allow-bad-names in favor of something that > doesn't use the word "bad" (suggestions appreciated). Otoh, adduser in > the Red Hat World uses --badname to allow such names as well. The problem is not the name, but the character set, so perhaps --allow-bad-characters will be better perceived. If you want to also avoid "bad", maybe try --allow-ambiguous-characters, or --allow-extended-character-set? The last one is perhaps a bit long winded, but also sounds more accurate than the rest. What do you think of these approaches? Have a nice day, :) -- .''`. Étienne Mollier <emoll...@debian.org> : :' : pgp: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da `. `' sent from /dev/pts/5, please excuse my verbosity `- on air: DGM - Solitude
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