Scripsit Stefan Hornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> When I install sympa, it fails adding this user. Here are the messages :
> Setting up sympa (4.1.5-2) ...
> Adding system group: sympa.
> addgroup: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
> via the name_regex configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
> option to relax this check or reconfigure name_regex.
> Adding system user: sympa.
> adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists.
> adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
> via the name_regex configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
> option to relax this check or reconfigure name_regex.
> usermod: user sympa does not exist
> usermod: user sympa does not exist
> usermod: user sympa does not exist
> usermod: user sympa does not exist
[and much more]
What I don't understand is that the maintainer script blithely went on
doing its thing after addgroup failed the first time. The postinst
does have an -e flag -- what is happening here?
> Wouldn't it be better that postinst script calls adduser with
> --force-badname ?
Hm, a better and simpler medium-term solution would be to allow
configuring a different adduser regexp for --system accounts.
A more long-term solution would be to explicitly reserve a portion of
the username/group namespace to system users and groups. But this has
been discussed before.
--
Henning Makholm "Hør, hvad er det egentlig
der ikke kan blive ved med at gå?"
