[Adduser-devel] Bug#454744: adduser refuse to create user even with --force-badname

[Michelle Konzack]

Package: adduser
Version: 3.97
Severity: normal

I need to install virtual-users on my courier-imap-server and must
install the $USER as

    /home/${LOGIN}@${FQDN}

but if I use:

----8<------------------------------------------------------------------
adduser --home /home/root at michelle1.private.tamay-dogan.net \
	--shell /bin/bash \
	--uid 3186 \
	--ingroup virtualusers \
	--force-badname \
	root at michelle1.private.tamay-dogan.net
----8<------------------------------------------------------------------

I get this:

----8<------------------------------------------------------------------
adduser: To avoid problems, the username should consist only of
letters, digits, underscores, periods and dashes, and not start with a
dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001). For compatibility with Samba
machine accounts $ is also supported at the end of the username
----8<------------------------------------------------------------------

So how to create local hosted virtualusers?

Under Sarge it was working... and under Etch I need to edit /etc/passwd
/etc/shadow, /etc/group and /etc/gshadow by hand...

It seems, that "--force-badname" does not work.

It is not realy funny, since I have already 186 such virtualusers

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Open Hardware Developer
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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