The user and group name policy is defined in /etc/adduser.conf ( man adduser.conf for details ) by the variable NAME_REGEX . I don't know the details about this choice but for instance by being more restrictive you reduce interoperability problems between systems.
You can discuss about this choice on the appropriate mailing list . http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use. I'm closing this report. Thanks again and don't hesitate to submit any new bug. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- hardy doesn't accept the password of a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284860 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
