Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
-adduser allowing to create users with lkeading spaces
This should be easy to fix, I think.
-deluser not able to delete them (this sounds to be the getpwnam issue
you spotted
I guess this is a bug in libc6?
-inaccurate documentation about all this
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:15:38AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Paul Visscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
This problem is also present in 4.0.18.1-5 from unstable, but I'm not
running unstable. The patch is similar, though the proper place to add a
similar patch is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:47 AM] [0] ~$ sudo useradd foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:47 AM] [0] ~$ sudo userdel foo
userdel: user foo does not exist
*that* could be considered a bug but another one...Either one in
useradd because it allows creating users with leading spaces in their
usernamesor
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:47 AM] [0] ~$ sudo useradd foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:47 AM] [0] ~$ sudo userdel foo
userdel: user foo does not exist
*that* could be considered a bug but another one...Either one in
useradd because it allows creating users
There are probably a lot of solutions to this, like cleaning files out
of /tmp when a user logs out, or fixing gnome to be more robust. But
fundamentally I think spaces in the username are a bad idea, especially
given getpwnam()'s behavior.
Leading spaces, I agree, yes.
Actually, useradd
severity 400683 wishlist
retitle 400683 Please don't allow spaces in usernames in useradd
tags 400683 wontfix
thanks
Quoting Paul Visscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge9
Severity: important
Tags: patch
(Despite the similarity in domain name, I am not in any
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