On Wednesday 03 August 2011 10:19:55 Ralf Friedl wrote: > Harald Becker wrote: > > On 02.08.2011 22:16, Ralf Friedl wrote: > > > >> What is the problem with locale-specific characters? > >> > > Portability is the problem. Especially if tar files of such users and > > untar it on other systems those "none-portable" user names may produce > > trouble. Sometimes serious trouble. I've had to deal with such trouble > > in past. Trouble witch stupid users produced by delivering tar archives > > with such user names. > > > Tar never creates user when extracting. It should just treat whatever > comes as a string and pass it to getpwnam, which should also not care > and use something like strcmp. I would just call that tar program broken. > > > ... just to throw that in. Beside this I like to use User Names with > > German Umlauts (ÄÖÜäöü) as regular German names may contain those. And I > > did this successfully on Linux/GNU systems for years ... but know about > > incompatibility and try to handle properly. > > > I wouldn't want busybox to to tell me what names I can use just to avoid > potential problems with some obscure system that I don't connect to anyway. >
Hi, You don't have to as this is a config option that can be easly turned off and was there for a few years. Ciao, Tito _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
