Your message dated Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:17:02 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#1076619: passwd: /etc/group file corruption with usernames ending in blackslash has caused the Debian Bug report #1076619, regarding passwd: /etc/group file corruption with usernames ending in blackslash to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: passwd Version: 1:4.13+dfsg1-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, This happens when a username ending with backslash which belongs to a group is being deleted. Steps to reproduce: $ useradd 'vijai\' $ usermod -aG sudo 'vijai\' $ userdel 'vijai\' Current behaviour: The username is not properly removed. Also the previous line is appended to the current line. $ cat /etc/group |grep sudo sudo:x:27:vijaiaudio:x:29: Expected Behaviour: user should be removed without any issues. $ cat /etc/group |grep sudo sudo:x:27: -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) Kernel: Linux 6.8.4-200.fc39.aarch64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii libaudit1 1:3.1.2-4 ii libc6 2.38-13 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.36-4 ii libpam-modules 1.5.3-7 ii libpam0g 1.5.3-7 ii libselinux1 3.5-2+b2 ii libsemanage2 3.5-1+b3 Versions of packages passwd recommends: ii sensible-utils 0.0.24 passwd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Source: shadow Source-Version: 1:4.19.0-1 On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:39:26AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Upstream will probably fix this completely in the forky period. This has happened in 4.19.0: Release 4.19.0 Breaking changes: - Remove support for escaped newlines in configuration files. It never worked correctly. b0a7ce58b924 (2025-12-05; "lib/, po/: Remove fgetsx() and fputsx()")
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