>>>>> On Wed, 06 Jan 2021, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 14:25 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> I wonder about this line. Both hyphen and underscore are valid >> characters in user names. >> >> So, ACCT_USER_FOO_BAR_ID would override the id for both foo_bar and >> foo-bar users.
> I don't think this is the problem we need to be worrying about. I mean, > if someone actually created user identifiers that differ only be non- > alnum characters, I think that'd the problem to tackle. It is legal to do that, and we already have examples for both hyphen and underscore in acct-user package names. So the syntax should be able to cope with it. A simple mapping from user names (which can contain a hyphen) to variable names (which cannot) doesn't work and IMHO also violates the principle of least surprise. Ulrich
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