On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 18:31:48 +0000, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: >On Tue, 08 Mar 2022 at 17:49:04 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> (2) >> #774046 #520037 >> Which special characters should we allow for account names? >> >> For system-accounts, I'd like to stick to ASCII letters, numbers, >> underscores. > >ASCII letters, numbers, underscores and dashes (U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS), >I hope? Lots of system accounts already use dashes, notably www-data >in the base-passwd set.
Of course. I would break a lot of my own packages otherwise ;-) Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834