On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 08:53:41PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * 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. > > I'm wondering if this working is an accident. The code in src:shadow > might be utf-8 clean, but maybe not "intentionally". Upstream has > some open PRs to generally improve string handling.
Do those PRs go in the direction of being more permissive or more restrictive? > Sorry for not being able to say anything useful. Everything helps. In the mean time, I am working on https://wiki.debian.org/UserAccounts to find some consensus and to have a single place of "truth" regarding user accounts. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 _______________________________________________ Pkg-shadow-devel mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-devel
