STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > it's conceivable that arbitrary data could even be > placed in the username field.
On Ubuntu, it's not possible to create an user with a non-ASCII name: $ sudo adduser é --no-create-home adduser: To avoid problems, the username should consist only of letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes, and not start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001). For compatibility with Samba machine accounts $ is also supported at the end of the username _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4859> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
