* Marc Haber <[email protected]> [241115 09:19]: > 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?
Towards "more correct"; I don't think they are changing what is being permissible. But if there were edge cases (bugs), they'll hopefully go away. > > 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. Thanks for working on that! Chris _______________________________________________ Pkg-shadow-devel mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-devel
