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[Bug 677929] Re: users-admin: create new user with dot/period fails

To: registry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:39:19 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 677929 <677929@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Of course, we can pass --force-badname, but if we consider dots as
acceptable, adduser should accept them by default.

About chown, there's absolutely no need to change the tool, as long as
people that add dots to their usernames and use chown from the
commandline know what they are doing. Anyway, if they don't, they'll get
an error message, and they'll understand the issue - newbies don't use
chown.

** Also affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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users-admin: create new user with dot/period fails
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