is set, the default group of the user is used. This setting does not affect commands whose command line is
prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.</para>
- <para>Note that restrictions on the user/group name syntax are enforced: the specified name must consist only
- of the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, <literal>_</literal> and <literal>-</literal>, except for the first character
- which must be one of a-z, 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. These restrictions
- are enforced in order to avoid ambiguities and to ensure user/group names and unit files remain portable among
- Linux systems.</para>
+ <para>Note that this enforces only weak restrictions on the user/group name syntax, but will generate
+ warnings in many cases where user/group names do not adhere to the following rules: the specified
+ name should consist only of the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, <literal>_</literal> and
+ <literal>-</literal>, except for the first character which must be one of a-z, A-Z and
+ <literal>_</literal> (i.e. digits and <literal>-</literal> are not permitted as first character). The
+ user/group name must have at least one character, and at most 31. These restrictions are made in
+ order to avoid ambiguities and to ensure user/group names and unit files remain portable among Linux
+ systems. For further details on the names accepted and the names warned about see <ulink
+ url="https://systemd.io/USER_NAMES">User/Group Name Syntax</ulink>.</para>
<para>When used in conjunction with <varname>DynamicUser=</varname> the user/group name specified is
dynamically allocated at the time the service is started, and released at the time the service is
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