On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:02:21 -0500, "Theodore Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: >On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:24:15PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> But things are moving by shadow upstream taking a user-hostile stance, >> willing to take away freedom. I must be fine with that because I >> cannot change it. But I don't need to like it. > >As a suggestion, we might make more forward progress if we assume good >faith and accept that other people might have different priorities >than others. I could easily see shadow, being a security-related >package, would consider encouraging something that could lead to >security bugs or just other random breakage, as "user-hostile".
They are planning to remove the --badname option from useradd, making it impossible to even try UTF-8 user names, without patching useradd. And if I was in Chris' shoes, I would probably refrain from doing so as well. And shadow would be the canonical place to do the PRECIS normalization at least for comparing usernames. That's something they wouldn't do. >Perhaps at some future stable Debian release (not Trixie), we could >enable it by default. There won't be such an option for us to enable. I need to be fine with that because I cannot change it. But I don't need to like it. Greetings Marc -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402
