Adduser devel - Aug 2005 - Bug#323395: Error in manpage for adduser.conf(5)

Package: adduser
Version: 3.63
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The manpage of adduser.conf(5) describes a configuration variable
USER_REGEX, which doesn''t exist in the program.  If it is set in
/etc/adduser.conf, adduser complains about an unknown configuration
variable.

A variable named "name_regex" exists and fits the description in the
manpage.  I have attached a patch.

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On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:05:05PM +0200, Christoph Ulrich Scholler
wrote:
> The manpage of adduser.conf(5) describes a configuration variable
> USER_REGEX, which doesn''t exist in the program.  If it is set in
> /etc/adduser.conf, adduser complains about an unknown configuration
> variable.
> 
> A variable named "name_regex" exists and fits the description in
the
> manpage.  I have attached a patch.
Actualy, the code lower cases the variable names read from the config
file, so NAME_REGEX is valid as well. I have replaced USER_REGEX with
NAME_REGEX in the man page. Thanks for reporting this issue.

Greetings
Marc

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Package: adduser
Version: 3.63
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The manpage of adduser.conf(5) describes a configuration variable
USER_REGEX, which doesn''t exist in the program.  If it is set in
/etc/adduser.conf, adduser complains about an unknown configuration
variable.

A variable named "name_regex" exists and fits the description in the
manpage.  I have attached a patch.

uLI

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--- adduser.conf.5	2005-08-16 14:58:20.000000000 +0200
+++ adduser.conf-fixed.5	2005-08-16 14:59:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 If set to a nonempty value, new users will have quotas copied from
 that user.  The default is empty.
 .TP
-\fBUSER_REGEX\fB
+\fBname_regex\fB
 User names are checked against this regular expression. If the name
 doesn''t match this regexp, user creation is refused unless
 --force-badname is set. With --force-badname set, only weak checks are

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Version: 3.69

Closing bugs that have been fixed in 3.69.

Greetings
Marc

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