[Adduser-devel] Bug#521883: adduser: Please accept underscore prefixed system names

[Afif Elghraoui]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed

على الخميس 24 تشرين الثاني 2016 ‫16:30، كتب Guillem Jover:
>> I am also in favor of reducing unnecessary incompatibilities that can
>> > cause confusion. People of #432562, do you have any comments?
> At least Ian seemed to retract his previous support for Debian-style
> names in <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/10/msg00577.html>,
> but I'll let him confirm this.
> 
> I also think allowing Debian-style names by default would be a bad
> idea, and I'm glad that bug is marked as wontfix. ;)

I thought that bug report was simply about using a capital letter
prefix, not necessarily [dD]ebian-* (especially since it was an
Ubuntu-proposed change). Anyway...

> 
> (You might also like to check the thread starting at
> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/10/msg00546.html>.)

Many thanks for these links. I've read through all of them, as well as
the much older threads and tickets that were linked from these discussions.

Since considering underscore-prefixed names as a valid format for system
user accounts does not necessarily mandate its use, I have no problem
accepting this. The campaign for making it the resolution of #248809 is
another matter.

Thanks and regards
Afif

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