Bug 5401

Summary:	Cannot create a user with non-ASCII character in its name
Product:	File System	Reporter:	H (hakan_bugmail)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Adrian Bunk (bunk)
Status:	REJECTED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.12.15	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description H 2005-10-08 10:32:17 UTC

If this is filed to the wrong component I apologize in advance and feel free 
to forward it to the right team.

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: probably always occured
Distribution: Ubuntu linux 5.10 PR
Hardware Environment: celeron 600 MHz
Software Environment: 
Problem Description: 

Unable to create a user with username "h

Comment 1 H 2005-10-08 10:34:58 UTC

In my opinion this is a serious bug, blocking a great amount of the world's 
population from making Linux totally native to their language.

Comment 2 Adrian Bunk 2005-10-15 14:58:57 UTC

This problem is in no way related to the kernel.

Comment 3 H 2005-10-15 15:11:48 UTC

So is the code for creating users elsewhere, or do you imply that this works 
in the kernel?

Comment 4 Adrian Bunk 2005-10-15 15:41:31 UTC

The code for creating users is in userspace utilities like adduser.