On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:48:50AM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > 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.
NAME_REGEX is mentioned in the man page for adduser.conf, which is referenced in the adduser man page. I can offer to include NAME_REGEX into the default configuration file, if that helps for people who cannot find the man page. Would that help? > What this error message means, in translation, is > "I don't like underscores in group names". > However it takes quite a bit of looking at it to "get" this meaning. > Is there some way to make this meaning clearer to the reader? Not easily. I think there was a reason to avoid printing the actual regex in the error message, but I don't remember. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
