Uh. I didn't expect to have to quote my commands in a bug report. For all I know your shell doesn't use \ as an escape character. Also, there is a reason I put everything into single quotes.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# adduser isi\\jhaltom admin Seeing as you are using bash, you will want to run the command above. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Incomplete -- does not canonicalize username before editing /etc/group https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120051 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs