[Pkg-shadow-devel] Length of user names with regard to encoding.

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 08:53:41PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Marc Haber <mh+pkg-shadow-devel at zugschlus.de> [241110 13:33]:
> > However, during debugging and improving UTF-8-support, I have found out
> > that an account named ффффффффффффффффф _CAN_ be created and seems to
> > happily work.
> 
> I'm wondering if this working is an accident. The code in src:shadow
> might be utf-8 clean, but maybe not "intentionally". Upstream has
> some open PRs to generally improve string handling.

Do those PRs go in the direction of being more permissive or more
restrictive?

> Sorry for not being able to say anything useful.

Everything helps. In the mean time, I am working on
https://wiki.debian.org/UserAccounts to find some consensus and to have
a single place of "truth" regarding user accounts.

Greetings
Marc

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