Adduser devel - Mar 2009 - Bug#520586: adduser: underscore disallowed in usernames again

Package: adduser
Version: 3.110
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch jaunty

It was recently reported to Ubuntu that adduser doesn''t support
underscores
in usernames.

This appears to be an accidental regression introduced when refactoring the
code out into AdduserCommon.pm, since the last previous mention of
underscores in the changelog is this:

  adduser (3.63) unstable; urgency=low

    * allow underscores again. Bug in the regexp. Thanks to Steve
      Langasek.

   -- Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>  Thu, 04 Mar 2005
06:38:22 +0000

Attached is a patch to restore this behavior.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek@ubuntu.com                                     vorlon@debian.org

Your message dated Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:19:17 +0000
with message-id <E1MpUkX-0002vO-FE at ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#520586: fixed in adduser 3.111
has caused the Debian Bug report #520586,
regarding adduser: underscore disallowed in usernames again
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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