It seems there is a standard problem: $ sudo adduser håkan adduser: To avoid problems, the username should consist only of letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes, and not start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001). For compatibility with Samba machine accounts $ is also supported at the end of the username
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap06.html#tag_06_01 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html Alias Name: "In the shell command language, a word consisting solely of underscores, digits, and alphabetics from the portable character set and any of the following characters: '!', '%', ',', '@'. Implementations may allow other characters within alias names as an extension. " and Name: "In the shell command language, a word consisting solely of underscores, digits, and alphabetics from the portable character set. The first character of a name is not a digit. " On the other hand, I've used the useradd command instead of adduser: sudo useradd -m håkan and the user got listed in /etc/passwd: håkan:x:1004:1004::/home/håkan:/bin/sh I could login and use it, but I wonder if it will break any programs.. ** Also affects: shadow Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: shadow Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: shadow Status: Invalid => Incomplete -- Cannot create a user "håkan" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/23475 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
