On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:45:29AM -0500, dev wrote:
> On 07/03/2017 10:40 AM, Evilham wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > That's the thing, we can do that :-) probably should, but the "right
> > way" (from a standards point of view) would be to actually allow those
> > names ^^ not to disallow them. So instead of modifying the way useradd
> > works, the way adduser works should be fixed (so, shadow).
>
> That was easy ;) Seems to be a flag for that.

But they should work without the flag. The flag will allow usernames
that are *really* questinoable.

-- hendrik

>
> # adduser 0day --force-badname
> Allowing use of questionable username.
> Adding user `0day' ...
> Adding new group `0day' (1000) ...
> Adding new user `0day' (1000) with group `0day' ...
> Creating home directory `/home/0day' ...
> Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
> Enter new UNIX password:
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