Package: sympa
Version: 4.1.5-2
Severity: important
I use a non usual name_regex pattern constraint to adduser script. Here
is the pattern I set in /etc/adduser.conf :
NAME_REGEX="([A-Z][a-z]+){2,}"
Of course, "sympa" user name doesn't match this pattern (which require
a Wiki like name).
When I install sympa, it fails adding this user. Here are the messages :
Setting up sympa (4.1.5-2) ...
Adding system group: sympa.
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.
Adding system user: sympa.
adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists.
adduser: 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.
usermod: user sympa does not exist
usermod: user sympa does not exist
usermod: user sympa does not exist
usermod: user sympa does not exist
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.
adduser: 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.
usermod: user sympa does not exist
usermod: user sympa does not exist
usermod: user sympa does not exist
usermod: user sympa does not exist
dpkg: error processing sympa (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
Errors were encountered while processing:
sympa
Wouldn't it be better that postinst script calls adduser with --force-badname ?
I use adduser script to create end-users accounts. Of course, I know and don't
mind that system users names won't match this syntax restriction.
I think this problem can be found in many other packages, but it is the
first time I see this problem and I didn't tried other packages.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages sympa depends on:
ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tr 4.50-8 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.14-1 Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcgi-fast-perl 5.8.4-8 CGI::Fast Perl module
ii libcrypt-ciphersaber-perl 0.61-4 Perl module implementing CipherSab
ii libdbd-mysql-perl 2.9006-1 A Perl5 database interface to the
ii libdbi-perl 1.46-6 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii libfcgi-perl 0.67-1 FastCGI Perl module
ii libio-stringy-perl 2.110-1 Perl5 modules for IO from scalars
ii libmailtools-perl 1.62-1 Manipulate email in perl programs
ii libmd5-perl 2.03-1 backwards-compatible wrapper for D
ii libmime-perl 5.417-1 Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii libmsgcat-perl 1.03-3 Locale::Msgcat perl module
ii libnet-ldap-perl 0.3202-3 A Client interface to LDAP servers
ii mhonarc 2.6.10-1 Mail to HTML converter
ii perl [libmime-base64-perl] 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-suid 5.8.4-8 Runs setuid Perl scripts
ii sysklogd [system-log-daemon 1.4.1-17 System Logging Daemon
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