Control: severity -1 important thanks On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 09:38:12PM -0800, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > Since considering underscore-prefixed names as a valid format for system > user accounts does not necessarily mandate its use, I have no problem > accepting this. The campaign for making it the resolution of #248809 is > another matter.
Since we discussed this for the last time, Debian policy was amended to recommend _username for newly created system accounts. This clearly means that adduser should accept prefixed underscores for system accounts. In my opinion, this automatically means that normal user accounts should not have an underscore prefix, this is especially valid for accounts created from d-i. The local admin is of course free to ask for trouble with adduser --force-badname, but the installer should not allow this. The original intent of this bug report was to allow the installer to create underscore-prefixed user accounts. For this case, my resolution is "wontfix", but we should change the behavior for adduser --system. I am also willing to have this bug report closed with the adduser --system modification after so many years. If the original submitter does still care they're invited to file a new bug. Greetings Marc
