Quoting Debian Bug Tracking System ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > reassign #131654 passwd > Bug#131654: --force-badname unsupported by groupadd > Bug reassigned from package `adduser' to `passwd'.
This bug was finally and logically reassigned to the passwd package as "groupadd" belong to it (while addgroup belongs to the adduser package). It seems, from the bug log, that Marc Haber repeatedly asked the passwd package maintainer to give an answer about it, unsuccessfully. Neither groupadd nor useradd support the --force-badname option, so I'm wondering about simply closing this bug report. What prevents me to do so is that the bug submitter mentioned this behaviour while using the adduser utility. So "adduser --group" then calls groupadd and not addgroup. *that* sound strange to me.... PS to Marc and adduser maintainers : for post-sarge, we should probably talk together (I'm in the process of taking over shadow, the source package for passwd and login, which include useradd and groupadd). Having both a "useradd" and a "adduser" utility in Debian seems very confusing to our users. Even me is usually forced to remember which is which. We should probably consider some day declaring useradd and groupadd obsoleted by adduser and addgroup which have far more features.
