Public bug reported: ubuntu@dev-xenial3:~⟫ sudo snap create-user [email protected] error: bad user result: cannot create user michael.nelson: adduser failed with exit status 1: adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured via the NAME_REGEX[_SYSTEM] configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname' option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.
ubuntu@dev-xenial3:~⟫ curl -s https://login.ubuntu.com/api/v2/keys/[email protected] | jq .username "michael.nelson" ubuntu@dev-xenial3:~⟫ grep NAME_REGEX /etc/adduser.conf #NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$" Assuming the above commented out NAME_REGEX is the default, then create- user will fail for some usernames which launchpad/SSO allow. ** Affects: snapd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1603018 Title: snap create-user gets bad username To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1603018/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
