[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1074306: useradd, adduser disagree about allowable names

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Hi!

On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 12:37:55PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> However, adduser has an explicit test to allow "bob;>/hacked", which
> now fails.

I just realized the specific test might be testing that adduser
doesn't break, when such a username is given?

If that is the reason for the test, could you make it pass --badname
to useradd, then it should just work again...?

Thanks,
Chris