On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > 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? > > No, I'm suggesting that rhetoric asserting that any adduser/useradd policy > could constrain people is overblown because users can be added to the system > without using either of those tools. The tools' policies should reflect what > is safest and most sensible for the majority of users, but if someone wants > to do something different there is nothing stopping them from doing so. [snip more about adding accounts without useradd/adduser]
Thanks, that makes sense. Apologies if my reply came through as snarky. 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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