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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2020-04-07 11:04:59 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2020-04-08 17:30:04 +0200
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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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A-Z or <literal>_</literal> (i.e. numbers and <literal>-</literal> are not permitted as first character). The
user/group name must have at least one character, and at most 31.</para>
+ <para>For further details about the syntax of user/group names, see <ulink
+ url="https://systemd.io/USER_NAMES">User/Group Name Syntax</ulink>.</para>
+
<para>It is strongly recommended to pick user and group names that are unlikely to clash with normal users
created by the administrator. A good scheme to guarantee this is by prefixing all system and group names with the
underscore, and avoiding too generic names.</para>