Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] acct-user.eclass: Support ACCT_USER_ID override

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 14:25 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, 05 Jan 2021, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> > +	# check for the override
> > +	local override_name=${ACCT_USER_NAME^^}
> > +	local override_var=ACCT_USER_${override_name//-/_}_ID
> 
> I wonder about this line. Both hyphen and underscore are valid
> characters in user names.
> 
> So, ACCT_USER_FOO_BAR_ID would override the id for both foo_bar and
> foo-bar users.

I don't think this is the problem we need to be worrying about.  I mean,
if someone actually created user identifiers that differ only be non-
alnum characters, I think that'd the problem to tackle.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny