Debian Bug report logs - #42874
adduser: adduser --force-badname doesn't

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: <markw@mail.enol.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: adduser: adduser --force-badname doesn't

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:27:25 -0600 (MDT)

Package: adduser
Version: 3.8
Severity: important

Consider the following session output:

[root@mail init.d]# adduser --force-badname 1blah
adduser: To avoid problems, the username should consist of a letter or
underscore followed by letters, digits, underscores, and dashes.
[root@mail init.d]# grep 1blah /etc/passwd
[root@mail init.d]#

As can be seen, the --force-badname option does not work as
advertised.

On an unrelated note, it would be nice to be able to pass in a
password on the command line (horribly insecure, I know, but
convenient all the same) and have a corresponding --force-badpass
option to force it to accept short/bad passwords.

Thanks muchly,

Mark Whitley
markw@enol.com

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux mail 2.2.7 #2 SMP Fri Jul 9 07:38:34 MDT 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages adduser depends on:
ii  passwd          980403-0.3.2   Change and administer password and group dat
ii  perl-base       5.004.05-1     Fake package assuring that one of the -base 

Message #10 received at 42874@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>

To: 42874@bugs.debian.org, <markw@mail.enol.com>

Subject: --force-badname should go away...

Date: 13 Aug 1999 21:10:42 -0400

Unfortunately, when adduser made the transition to depending on
useradd from the shadow suite, we lost the ability to implement a
--force-badname type of flag because the underlying useradd program
has no corresponding facility.

So the --force-badname parameter should probably be removed, or at
least changed to report that you can no longer do it.

Mike.

Message #17 received at 42874-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roland Bauerschmidt <rb@debian.org>

To: 42874-done@bugs.debian.org

Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 16:16:01 +0200

The --force-badname option only allows usernames that are also accepted
by useradd:

roland:~# adduser --force-badname 1foo
adduser: To avoid problems, the username should consist of a letter or
underscore followed by letters, digits, underscores, and dashes. For
compatibility with Samba machine accounts also $ is supported at the
end of the username

Roland

-- 
 * Roland Bauerschmidt <rb@debian.org> * http://www.copyleft.de/~roland/ *
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