Package: adduser Version: 3.141 Severity: serious Hi:
root@swivel-sid-buildd-amd64-nhes:/srv# addgroup --system _hippotat root@swivel-sid-buildd-amd64-nhes:/srv# adduser --system foo root@swivel-sid-buildd-amd64-nhes:/srv# adduser foo _hippotat err: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--allow-bad-names' option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX in configuration. root@swivel-sid-buildd-amd64-nhes:/srv# adduser --system foo _hippotat fatal: Specify only one name in this mode. root@swivel-sid-buildd-amd64-nhes:/srv# The first adduser foo _hippotat should work and add the user to the _hippotat group. We should not be sanitizing the group name this restrictively for the two-argument case adding user to group 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 6.12.15-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 adduser depends on: ii passwd 1:4.17.2-5 adduser recommends no packages. Versions of packages adduser suggests: ii cron 3.0pl1-192 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-7+b1 ii perl 5.40.1-2 pn quota <none> -- no debconf information