Hi Joachim, Le 2024-10-05 17:21, Joachim Zobel a écrit : > Hi. > > Debian policy 9.2.1 says: "When maintainers choose a new hardcoded or > dynamically generated username for packages to use, they should start > this username with an underscore." By now this requires an > > adduser --allow-bad-names > > in the script creating the user. Since I followed this policy, I'll > have to adapt my package vzlogger. Alternatively I could I rename the > user and ignore 9.2.1, the package is only in testing. Or is this a bug > in adduser? If you are creating a system user, you do not need to pass the --allow-bad-names to adduser. However, this option is required if you intend to create a non-system user/group name starting with an underscore. > Sincerely, > Joachim Cheers, Vincent
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