[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#50303: www-data considered harmful

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Control: close 50303

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 11:41:37PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> The www-data user and group should die.  The hyphen is a gratuitous source
> of grief.
> 
> [some examples where old programs cannot deal with "-" in user 
> names]

I'm going to close this report. 24.5 years later it's too late to 
change the "www-data" name. All knowledge that has been spread over 
the internet will be wrong if this gets changed, and I don't think 
that's worth it.

Plus, on the shadow side I'd say we're favoring allowing _more_ 
characters, not less. Broken programs need to be fixed, not worked 
around.

Chris