From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: adduser don't allow char '.' in user name Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shadow-utils-4.0.3-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: As root : # adduser f.matias adduser: invalid user name 'f.matias' # Same problem with firstboot. With firstboot add the user 'f.matias' (for example) and you get : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/firstboot/firstbootWindow.py", line 336, in nextClicked result = module.apply(self.notebook) File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/create_user.py", line 141, in apply self.admin.addUser(userEnt) RuntimeError: name contains invalid char `.' Actual Results: Don't work. Expected Results: user with a char '.' added. Additional info:
Created attachment 91682 [details] work around for but Can use newusers utility to add users with perion (".") in user name.
The bug #89205 has a working patch for this problem. I did not check firstboot. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89205 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.