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

[Iustin Pop]

On 2024-11-24 11:44:45, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> 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 wanted to reply to Johannes, but I didn't exactly how to phrase it -
you did it perfectly.

I still don't understand the need for username to be very
representative of one's name. OTOH, my name can be fully written using
ASCII, so maybe I miss something. But I've also had to use accounts like
abc745, which didn't bother me much over the duration of a semester or
year.

regards,
iustin