On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 09:44:11PM +1100, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:48:50AM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > 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. > > NAME_REGEX is mentioned in the man page for adduser.conf, which is > referenced in the adduser man page. > > I can offer to include NAME_REGEX into the default configuration file, > if that helps for people who cannot find the man page. Would that help? >
I think it would. In fact this was done before I even reported the bug, http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/adduser/trunk/adduser.conf?r1=738&r2=744 Ah, the joy of running stable. The relevant lines are there in my copy of /usr/share/adduser/adduser.conf, and the postinst copies this to /etc/adduser.conf if the latter is missing. So I think this bug can be closed. I suspect that I did not see the regex in my copy of /etc/adduser.conf because I had an old version, kept there across upgrades. Looking at the manpage text again, it seems that I must not have made the connection "configuration file" == "/etc/adduser.conf". Which was lame of me. The only change I can think of that would have avoided my confusion would be more explicitly pointing to the manpage for the config file, eg --- usr/share/man/man8/adduser.8.orig 2011-11-24 07:27:43.407629520 +1100 +++ usr/share/man/man8/adduser.8 2011-11-24 07:31:14.739404373 +1100 @@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ and .B addgroup to apply only a weak check for validity of the name. +.B NAME_REGEX +is described in adduser.conf(5). .TP .B \-\-gecos GECOS Set the gecos field for the new entry generated. Thanks for your care of this package. Kind regards, Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org