Package: passwd Version: 1:4.0.13-7 Severity: important
Hello, I was wondering if a username like 'étoile' could be added so I did: # useradd étoile # Then checked: $ grep étoile /etc/passwd étoile:x:1003:100::/home/étoile:/bin/sh $ Good ! But the home directory doesnt exit: $ ll /home/ | grep toile $ So i deleted it: # userdel étoile # Then I remembered about the 'adduser' command: # adduser étoile adduser: To avoid problems, the username should consist of letters, digits, underscores, periods and dashes. For compatibility with Samba machine accounts $ is also supported at the end of the username # So looks like we have something inconsistent! I would expect useradd to give an error message just like adduser does. Or adduser should not give an error message ? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii debianutils 2.15.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-modules 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii login 1:4.0.13-7 system login tools passwd recommends no packages. -- debconf information: passwd/password-mismatch: * passwd/username: hashar passwd/password-empty: * passwd/md5: true passwd/user-uid: * passwd/shadow: true passwd/username-bad: * passwd/user-fullname: Ashar Voultoiz * passwd/make-user: true passwd/title:
