Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 04:15:44PM +0200, you wrote: > >> Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> writes: >> >>> It would not--POSIX does not disallow the . syntax. >> >> (This is not my point, but in my reading >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/chown.html >> does not allow it: "The BSD syntax user[. group] was changed to user[: >> group] in this volume of POSIX.1-2017...") > > The new syntax was introduced.
No new syntax was introduced, "the BSD syntax was *changed*". But this isn't from the normative section, so nevermind. > It does not say anything like "MUST NOT accept . syntax". Nor like MUST NOT accept ! syntax or % syntax or @ syntax or ..:) >> Rather, I meant that adduser could be configured *by default* to not >> require --force-badname for adding perfectly valid POSIX user names. > > It can be, someone's simply decided not to. I think that's dumb, but > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ OK, I'll link our discussion into #604242 to see if anything can change now. -- Thanks, Feri
