Bug#264879: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#264879: passwd: useradd allows invalid characters as username

[Christian Perrier]

tags 264879 upstream confirmed
forwarded 264879 Tomasz K=C5=82oczko <kloczek@zie.pg.gda.pl>
thanks

Given that Tomasz has acked this bug report  and everyone agrees this
is an issue which must be discussed with upstream (even if this ends
up in a specific Debian patch later), I hereby tag the bug
appropriately, at least temporarily.

We certainly need to bring consistency here. There has been a recent
discussion about adduser behaviour inside Debian and the adduser
maintenance team has setup its guidelines, afaik.

So, I propose that Tomasz first gives us indications about his
choices, with his upstream hat on (taking other OS behaviour into
account)...and then we will decide whether we need adapt the Debian
implementation if useradd happens to be less strict than adduser on
that matter.