Control: severity -1 normal Control: merge -1 1112486
This is a duplicate. Greetings Marc On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 08:16:39PM +0000, Md Ayquassar wrote:
Package: adduser Version: 3.152 Severity: important Issue `adduser guest` followed by `deluser --remove-all-files guest` for a new user name (here: `guest`). Observe that the second command works for some time and bails out with “invalid characters in input string, see trace output for more details at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/AdduserCommon.pm line 143.” The home directory of the deleted user remains; you'd have to continue with `deluser --remove-home guest` to clean it up. So the option --remove-all-files is not really usable (at least for me). The exit code of the failed `deluser --remove-all-files guest` is 2. Bad English put aside (corrected: “Invalid characters in input string; see trace output for more details at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/AdduserCommon.pm line 143.”), I kindly ask that at least some more debugging information be shown on stderr, e.g., which character in which string troubled the removal procedure and why. Ideally, such situations should not occur; the fact that some internal procedure cannot deal with some strings the user isn't even aware of (file names?) is a real bug. Probably related: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1112486 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1112486. Gratefully!
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