Am Do, Dez 12, 2024 at 20:21:15 +0200 schrieb Henrik Ahlgren:
I don't see much problems with single-user machines, especially security
related. But, think multi-user environments? Imagine, as a non-Chinese
speaking Westerner, needing to chown a file to a colleague called 陈成. Even
You are joking, aren’t you? You could use „getent passwd” and copy
& paste the username. Or use the user id.
With this argument passwd should refuse to set the password to „12345”.
And no one in this thread has said that you *have* to use non-ASCII
usernames. But some people don’t want to give you a chance to do it.
I don’t need non-ASCII for my name but I would never use a system that
would forces me to rewrite my name in ASCII because it is so utterly
broken in 2024. I bet there is no problem on Windows systems.
Stephan
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