You are correct. See, for example, his recent response to the issue where systemd starts processes belonging to users whose usernames begin with a digit with r

You are correct. See, for example, his recent response to the issue where systemd starts processes belonging to users whose usernames begin with a digit with root privileges: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237#issuecomment-311900864 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237#issuecomment-... My deepest apologies to HN for the overly-dry sense of humor.