On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > They are planning to remove the --badname option from useradd, making > > it impossible to even try UTF-8 user names, without patching useradd. > > Or edit the passwd file (vipw), or use any non-passwd-file authentication > mechanism, or use a different user management tool, etc. > I think you're overemphasizing the importance of the useradd command > here--it just acts as a convenience and sets some baseline policies; > it's not actually essential for adding a user. If you don't like the policy > that useradd sets...just don't use it.
In the context of the whole thread, are you suggesting that adduser(1) should be changed to use something other than useradd(8) under the hood? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org pe...@morpheusly.com PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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