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 _______________________________________________ Pkg-shadow-devel mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-devel
