On 15/04/13 17:07, Rich Johnston wrote:
I don't think this is a bug, username must begin with a character
(unless you created the user using NIS or adduser --force-badname).
My understanding that this is a recommendation rather than a
requirement. useradd(8) has the following to say:
On Debian, the only constraints are that usernames must neither
start
with a dash ('-') nor contain a colon (':') or a whitespace
(space: '
', end of line: '\n', tabulation: '\t', etc.). Note that using a
slash
('/') may break the default algorithm for the definition of the
user's
home directory.
In any case, I'd still consider it a bug that trailing non-numeric
characters were just silently ignored.
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