Moreover it will do Levenshtein string distance based searching so that minor typos are allowed.
Currently this kind of filtering is done client side. But the infrastructure added for this is somewhat generic, in order to apply it server side too if possible to make things more efficient, in particular on larger setups.
One goal with this: eventually you should be able to type in your name into a graphical login screen such as gdm's greeter and as you type suggestions are made, fuzzily.
https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/113520772456548887
And that's all for now.
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