Bug#400683: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#400683: passwd: useradd creates users with spaces in usernames

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:15:38AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Paul Visscher (paulv at canonical.org):
> > This problem is also present in 4.0.18.1-5 from unstable, but I'm not
> > running unstable. The patch is similar, though the proper place to add a
> > similar patch is debian/patches/506_relaxed_usernames. I filed this bug
> > with Ubuntu
> > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/71242)
> > and included a patch there.
> 
> And I'm not sure that the Ubuntu maintainer of shadow will fix it
> (hence the CC to Colin Watson who, I think ,is shadow maintainer in
> Ubuntu).

I'm inclined to agree with your assessment of this bug. I've glued the
two bugs together in Launchpad so that it's visible.

However, now that shadow is no longer used in the installer, I'm not
really involved in maintaining shadow in Ubuntu any more. I expect us to
ship a shadow package pretty close to what Debian ships from now on.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]