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[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan@xxxxxxx>]

What's the exact behavior of the installer? It doesn't use the same code
at all, so that's purely a coincidence it it suffers from the same
problem.

Don't worry about the importance, though: I'm currently discussing with
an adduser developer, and the fact that I set it to Low doesn't mean it
won't be considered. Though if you say the installer is affected, we may
want to raise priority - but that will be more important when we know
what the fix is, and when backporting will have to be considered.

Personnally, I think chown's behavior regarding the dot is silly, since
':' already serves the same purpose (maybe that's a legacy). Anyway, you
can always quote the username if you want, and users-admin will ensure
chown correctly interprets a username with a dot in it. So I'd rather
fix adduser.

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users-admin: create new user with dot/period fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677929
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