Bug#408148: [Adduser-devel] Bug#408148: adduser: Wrong failure message on invalid group name.

[Joerg Hoh]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:33:07PM -0200, Fabio Pugliese Ornellas wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.63
> Severity: normal
> 
> I can not explain how the following can happen:
> 
> root at ampere:/var/lib/cvs# addgroup 'a:a'
> addgroup: To avoid problems, the username should consist of
> letters, digits, underscores, periods and dashes. For compatibility with
> Samba machine accounts $ is also supported at the end of the username
> root at ampere:/var/lib/cvs# addgroup 'a_a'
> addgroup: Please enter a username matching the regular expression
> configured
> via the name_regex configuration variable.  Use the `--force-badname'
> option to relax this check or reconfigure name_regex.
> root at ampere:/var/lib/cvs#

Marc, this anomality still exists:

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joerg at hydra ~ $ LANG=C sudo addgroup 'a:a'
addgroup: 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
joerg at hydra ~ $ LANG=C sudo addgroup 'a_a'
addgroup: Please enter a username matching the regular expression
configured
via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable.  Use the `--force-badname'
option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.
joerg at hydra ~ $ LANG=C sudo addgroup --version
adduser version 3.102

Adds a user or group to the system.

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Joerg

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