Public bug reported: This is a follow-up from bug 1600638.
Debian's adduser does not allow the initial character of a username to be a digit. It would be nice if (unity/gnome)-control-center could detect this and disallow it or recommend against it. What happens ============ A popup that says Failed to add account running '/usr/sbin/adduser' failed: Child process exited with code 1' ** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630417 Title: Unity control center chokes on initial number in user name Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: New Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: This is a follow-up from bug 1600638. Debian's adduser does not allow the initial character of a username to be a digit. It would be nice if (unity/gnome)-control-center could detect this and disallow it or recommend against it. What happens ============ A popup that says Failed to add account running '/usr/sbin/adduser' failed: Child process exited with code 1' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1630417/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp