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1. Kabuki Fox & Security Theater (kellerfuchs@vulpine.club)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2017 01:39:57 UTC Kabuki Fox & Security Theater

   • Kit Redgrave 🈚️🏴☠️
   • peter hessler
   • Michael W Lucas

   OK, I have no words for this: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237

   If your username doesn't match what Poettering expects usernames to be (and doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but `[a-zA-Z]+` is *probably* safe?), then systemd will happily run your user services as root.

   Reply: not-a-bug, don't use “invalid usernames”...

   Paging @KitRedgrave, @mwlucas and @phessler for hilarity.

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   • Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2017 13:14:12 UTC Stephen Michael Kellat

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     There are some US Government agencies that beg to differ about "invalid" user names. They also raise & spend more than $RHT market cap.