On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 08:41:06PM +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote: > Marc Haber, on 2024-12-03: > > 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?
Extended sounds good, maybe even "unicode"? or "international"? 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
