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

[Iustin Pop]

On 2024-11-24 14:37:24, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * 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.

Massively?

> 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.

And what relation does the username used for logging in have to "being
addressed"? Isn't it akin a passport/ID card number?

regards,
iustin