Bug#705483: xfsprogs: xfs_quota misinterprets usernames with leading digits

[James Carter]

On 15/04/13 17:07, Rich Johnston wrote:
>
> I don't think this is a bug, username must begin with a character 
> (unless you created the user using NIS or adduser --force-badname).

My understanding that this is a recommendation rather than a 
requirement. useradd(8) has the following to say:

        On Debian, the only constraints are that usernames must neither 
start
        with a dash ('-') nor contain a colon (':') or a whitespace 
(space: '
        ', end of line: '\n', tabulation: '\t', etc.). Note that using a 
slash
        ('/') may break the default algorithm for the definition of the 
user's
        home directory.

In any case, I'd still consider it a bug that trailing non-numeric 
characters were just silently ignored.

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