I'm well versed in bash. It just never occurred to me to escape the
apostrophe in the real name field since it is supposed to be a string
variable.
Mint treats my input correctly, creating my user account as it should.
Debian does not.
I'll try escaping the apostrophe one of these days, but that's hardly
the issue. The issue is the installer should sanitize user input.
Thanks for the reply. Did you by chance create a bug report for this?
On 10/22/2015 02:16 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Normally I would put a backslash character in front of that apostrophe
since it's a special character to bash at least and I suspect several
other shell envioonments. Perhaps try O\'Dell by way of an example.
I suspect mint hasn't been modified at all and that you haven't
interacted so far with the shell environment in mint which may be why
you haven't found this error in that distro yet.
On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Adrian O'Dell wrote:
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 02:15:10
From: Adrian O'Dell <crimsonm...@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Reporting Bug
Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:33:12 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I
don't have the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the
installer?
My name contains an apostrophe, which causes the Debian installer to
not create my user account. Long time ago when I tried to seek help
via IRC was told I must have done something wrong. Two days ago I
confirmed through multiple installs that the apostrophe is the culprit.
This is the only attempt I will make at filing a bug report. Anyone
more familiar with filing a bug report, it would be greatly
appreciated if you would make sure it gets filed properly so it may
be resolved. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting is an ugly wall of
text which immediately discouraged me from wanting to file a bug
report anymore.
Thanks.
