Package: adduser Version: 3.145 Severity: normal Steps to replicate:
1. add a user to a group they're already a member of 2. observe the terminal output 3. observe the syslog output Expected: The messages are approximately the same Observed: The syslog message is truncated Example: $ sudo adduser saned scanner warn: The user `saned' is already a member of `scanner'. $ sudo journalctl -rn1 SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=adduser Mar 17 16:13:42 andrews-2024-laptop adduser[650156]: The user >From a quick look through the source, it appears `log_to_syslog()` in `/usr/share/perl5/Debian/AdduserLogging.pm` removes everything starting at the first backtick. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages adduser depends on: ii passwd 1:4.17.3-2 adduser recommends no packages. Versions of packages adduser suggests: pn cron <none> ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-7+b1 ii perl 5.40.1-2 pn quota <none> -- debconf information: adduser/homedir-permission: true adduser/title:
