The Debian maintainer doesn't think this should be fixed, noting that (a) userdel lets you delete it again, (b) adduser (which is the official command-line user-creation tool, as opposed to useradd which is just a low-level detail) doesn't allow it. I'm inclined to agree.
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #400683 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400683 ** Also affects: shadow (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400683 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- debian patch allows usernames with spaces https://launchpad.net/bugs/71242 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
