Package: passwd Version: 1:4.16.0-4 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/useradd Tags: upstream
Hi, recently, useradd has grown funcitonality to check user names for validity, see #1074306. This kind of clashes with adduser doing the same thing, and has made testing adduser a bit harder. But still, the efforts of staying sane upsetream-wise and close to upstream Debian-wise are appreciated. I would like to have adduser give more clear error messages like "the user name is fine with adduser but useradd doesnt like it", and that would be way easier if useradd's error message "invaid user name" woud be backed with an appropriate, exclusive exit code. I understand that this is unlikely to show up in useradd next week, so I will be tweaking adduser's tests to handle those failures more graefully, but I have just commented the tests so that we can re-enable them once there is a more reliable method to detect this kind of useradd error programatically. Please keep this bug report posted about your and upstream's decisions. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.11.4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii base-passwd 3.6.5 ii libacl1 2.3.2-2 ii libattr1 1:2.5.2-2 ii libaudit1 1:4.0.1-1 ii libbsd0 0.12.2-2 ii libc6 2.40-3 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.36-5 ii libpam-modules 1.5.3-7 ii libpam0g 1.5.3-7 ii libselinux1 3.7-3 ii libsemanage2 3.7-2 ii login.defs 1:4.16.0-4 Versions of packages passwd recommends: ii sensible-utils 0.0.24 passwd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
