Package: adduser Version: 3.63 Severity: minor Tags: patch The manpage of adduser.conf(5) describes a configuration variable USER_REGEX, which doesn't exist in the program. If it is set in /etc/adduser.conf, adduser complains about an unknown configuration variable.
A variable named "name_regex" exists and fits the description in the manpage. I have attached a patch. uLI
--- adduser.conf.5 2005-08-16 14:58:20.000000000 +0200 +++ adduser.conf-fixed.5 2005-08-16 14:59:02.000000000 +0200 @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ If set to a nonempty value, new users will have quotas copied from that user. The default is empty. .TP -\fBUSER_REGEX\fB +\fBname_regex\fB User names are checked against this regular expression. If the name doesn't match this regexp, user creation is refused unless --force-badname is set. With --force-badname set, only weak checks are
