** Changed in: adduser
Status: New => Fix Released
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Title:
users-admin: create new user with dot/period fails
I already fixed the installer problem in ubiquity 2.5.0 in natty - see
bug 555896.
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)
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** Changed in: adduser
Status: Unknown => New
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Of course, we can pass --force-badname, but if we consider dots as
acceptable, adduser should accept them by default.
About chown, there's absolutely no need to change the tool, as long as
people that add dots to their usernames and use chown from the
commandline know what they are doing. Anyway,
Milan, first of all, as I can see the "adduser" command has a switch
"--force-badname" that can be used in this case.
But, if you use this option every kind of strange character will be used. In
other words, if you want to use the dot, you need to pass this option only when
dot(s) appear in the
Milan, I don't know if the urgency of this issue is low.
Ubuntu installer is affected as well, and I've read on forums about some novice
user not being able to perform the installation as of this issue.
Anyway, as I wrote in my bug report, perhaps the dot should be removed because
it's used by t
What's the exact behavior of the installer? It doesn't use the same code
at all, so that's purely a coincidence it it suffers from the same
problem.
Don't worry about the importance, though: I'm currently discussing with
an adduser developer, and the fact that I set it to Low doesn't mean it
won't
Thanks for the report. This is indeed a synchronisation issue between
users-admin and adduser, the tool which is responsible for actually
creating users. I've filed a bug in Debian so they make adduser allow
dots in usernames.
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided =>
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