Installer will not allow username with fullstop in it
Bug #288677 reported by
JohnFlux
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| user-setup (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
If I try to create a user with the username, say, John.flux then it complains that the "." is not a valid character.
If I create the user on the command line (with adduser), it works. I have now been using the username "john.flux" for the last year in Ubuntu with no sideeffects or problems at all. It appears to be entirely safe to do so.
The reason that I need to have this username is for the revision control system that the company uses. My windows username is "John.Flux" and so my linux username needs to be the same. The revision control system uses the username for commits etc.
I should add that this 'problem' occurs in both the gnome and kde frontends.
| description: | updated |
Revision history for this message
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Triaged |
Revision history for this message
| JohnFlux (johnflux) wrote Re: [Bug 288677] Re: Installer will not allow username with fullstop in it | #2 |
| affects: | ubiquity (Ubuntu) → user-setup (Ubuntu) |
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adduser thinks that dots in usernames are a bad idea, probably because much code has historically used the 'chown USER.GROUP' syntax that fails if usernames contain dots. You may not have run into this but I've seen such code in Ubuntu fairly recently.
It might be nice for you to be able to override this in ubiquity, although I do think that a warning is appropriate.