> > Hi, > > i'm using the latest adduser package from bo-updates and i found that > it does not accept user names containing 8 bits chars. I'm talking > about a user's full name (first name + family name), not short name > (login name or home directory name). I don't know if such names are > supposed to be valid, so i'm asking here before reporting it as a bug.
Did you try do use "--force-badname" as an option to adduser? > However such names are very frequent in some countries including > France. Moreover other programs reading /etc/passwd (for instance > finger) support 8 bits chars, once the file is edited. > > What do you think ? > > -- > Laurent. > That's all I know about adduser 8-bit characters... Please let me know if it's another kind of problem. Daniel. __________________________________________________________________________ Daniel Doro Ferrante email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cecm.usp.br/~danieldf CECM - Curso Experimental de Ciencias Moleculares - USP Experimental Course of Molecular Sciences - University of Sao Paulo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .