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

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

* Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> [241124 11:45]:
> Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch at mister-muffin.de> writes:
> 
> > But my 2 cents on the topic are: Lets please allow more than ascii in
> > usernames. I find it very uncomfortable every time I have to tell my students
> > that sorry, you somehow have to manage writing your name using American letters
> > because that's all we have after half a century of Computers being a thing...
> 
> You are confusing usernames and names.  Different concepts with
> different rules.  Let's just hope you never get two students with the
> same name.

I find your reply massively insulting, and I'm not even the original
author.

Usernames (not the "comment" field) are identifiers, and humans care
about the identifiers used for them.

Yes, some humans don't care if you assign them a random 32byte
string as their username. Enough humans however, do have
preferences. In some countries humans even have a right to choose
how they are being adressed.

Chris