* Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> [241114 20:53]: > * Marc Haber <[email protected]> [241110 13:33]: > > However, during debugging and improving UTF-8-support, I have found out > > that an account named ффффффффффффффффф _CAN_ be created and seems to > > happily work.
> > Should we: > > > > - continue to enforce the encoded length of the user name to be < 32 > > - limit length of the user name to be < 32 _characters_ regardless > > of how long it is encoded? > > - drop the length limit altogether? > > - something else? Had now a quick look into both the shadow and util-linux source, and ISTM we can just declare the year is 2024, and state that usernames must be UTF-8 encoded and no length limit applies. Chris _______________________________________________ Pkg-shadow-devel mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-devel
