tags -patch thanks Hi, This one time, at band camp, Georgios M. Zarkadas said: > The default value of variable NAME_REGEX shipped within the package's file > /usr/share/adduser/adduser.conf (which is copied upon installation to > etc/adduser.conf) is incorrect. > > current value / should-be value (the patch - append "?$" to it): > > - --- adduser.conf 2011-06-17 00:51:05.718593580 +0300 > +++ adduser.conf 2011-06-17 00:51:32.282093072 +0300 > @@ -82,4 +82,4 @@ > > > # check user and group names also against this regular expression. > - -#NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$" > +#NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$?$"
This can't be fixing it, the default is commented out. > The problem realised when tried to install hal (which installs user haldaemon) > with the regex enabled and it failed to install with the following message: > > - --------------- > Γίνεται εγκατάσταση hal (0.5.14-3) ... > adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured > via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname' > option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX. > dpkg: σφάλμα στην επεξεργασία του hal (--configure): > η υποδιεργασία installed post-installation script επέστρεψε κατάσταση λάθους > 1 > - --------------- > > After checking the postinst script of hal package I didn't found anything > suspicious in its adduser invocation, nor on the tried out username > (haldaemon) > so I started to study the adduser source code. > > Seeing the 'checkname' routine and the initial test expression, I finally came > up with the patch which was tried and hal installation succeeded. I wonder if this is a locale specific problem. Can you try (in a chroot, whatever), installing haldaemon with a default config for adduser to try to reproduce it? I am curious if it will succeed if you then set LANG=C and install it again. I suspect it will install. If this is the case, can you let me know? Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sg...@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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