Hi, Am 2. Mai 2025 23:18:14 MESZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>: >Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> (2025-05-02): >> Is there any update on this topic ? Can we still expect a change in >> adduser before Trixie release ? > >That's one of my main concerns for future d-i releases (be it an RC or >the final release for 13.0). > >> Otherwise, I guess everyone agrees that user-setup cannot be left as >> is. A workaround may be to call adduser with the username in --comment >> to make sure the user account is created, and set the actual full name >> with chfn -f ? > >I have no opinion on what adduser should do (enforce limits or not, >which ones, etc.) but I would really hate it it we were basically >limited to offering ASCII usernames from d-i.
IMHO we are somewhat forced to follow adduser's rules here: being not consistent with adduser makes things even more worse (means: for the first user created during installation there would be other restrictions regarding allowed characters than for later created users). And I read above, that only ASCII characters are allowed in adduser, and given this is still true, why not follow that path? Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
