[Pkg-shadow-devel] Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

[Richard Lewis]

Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel at zugschlus.de> writes:


> For adduser's next release, I would like to discuss the following
> things:
>
> (1)
> Should Debian allow UTF-8 user names in the first place or should we
> restrict names for regular users to some us-ascii near set as well? (I
> think yes, we should)

would allowing utf-8 enable some of the abuse described at
https://lwn.net/Articles/874951/ ?

as usernames appear in logs and other output (and are passed to all
sorts of commands), it seems a bad idea to be too permissive or to
change from historic practice by default, even though from a user pov it
would be nice to have the option


> P.S.: The teams and inviduals working on src:shadow, base-passwd and
> adduser would appreciate your help in coding and packaging.

Is there a list of "things that need doing"?