[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#819531: Invalid user name 'Debian-snmp' for adduser

[Guillem Jover]

Control: severity -1 serious

(I don't think this deserves to be grave TBH.)

Hi!

On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 14:38:27 +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote:
> Package: snmpd
> Version: 5.7.3+dfsg-1.1
> Severity: grave

> Setting up snmpd (5.7.3+dfsg-1.1) ...
> 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: error processing package snmpd (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  snmpd
> 
> "Debian-snmp" is invalid for adduser.

Because the change did not take place in the system, and as such there
will be no need to revert it (from the passwd databases and similar), I'd
ask request that the other nicer convention with a leading underscore,
which is shorter and causes less problems on tools displaying file
attributes, also "invalid" by default so namespace safe, is distro
agnostic, and has precedent on other systems such as some of the BSDs.

Thanks,
Guillem