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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2020-04-07 11:04:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2020-04-08 17:30:04 +0200 |
| commit | 887a8fa341d9b24a7c9cd3f1fce328f8e43a1b4f (patch) | |
| tree | c26f1312348cdc01df5b1bee0a7da4cf87ef9cd1 /docs/USER_RECORD.md | |
| parent | docs: add a longer document explaining our rules on user/group names (diff) | |
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docs: hook up the new USER_NAMES document everywhere
(Also correct the set of names we accept in User=, which was forgotten
to be updated in ae480f0b09aec815b64579bb1828ea935d8ee236.
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diff --git a/docs/USER_RECORD.md b/docs/USER_RECORD.md index 3bc0879a48..b9c21a1fea 100644 --- a/docs/USER_RECORD.md +++ b/docs/USER_RECORD.md @@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ object. The following fields are currently defined: UNIX user name. This field is the only mandatory field, all others are optional. Corresponds with the `pw_name` field of of `struct passwd` and the `sp_namp` field of `struct spwd` (i.e. the shadow user record stored in -`/etc/shadow`). +`/etc/shadow`). See [User/Group Name Syntax](https://systemd.io/USER_NAMES) for +the (relaxed) rules the various systemd components enforce on user/group names. `realm` → The "realm" a user is defined in. This concept allows distinguishing users with the same name that originate in different organizations or |