Package: adduser Version: 3.121 Severity: normal I think that we should step away from --force-badname. That option is a misnomer in the first place, as it doesnt FORCE a bad name. I can adduser --force-badname zugschlus as well as without the option. In fact, the option relaxes our default sanity checks for user names, _allowing_ names that won't pass them. Internally, we are already doing the right thing and called the variable allow_badname.
We have an ongoing discussion about allowed characters in user names which might as well end up in the adduser-imposed restrictions for non-system accounts being removed completely, so I'd recommend addressing this bug report only after we have made up our mind whether to keep this option in the first place. If we decide to keep it, I suggest renaming it (to a new name that matches our new policy, possibly --allow-badname or --no-check-name-regex) and keeping the old name for a BIG number of release cycles since we have nearly a hundred packages in the archive that use --force-badname. Greetings Marc
