[Bug 831319] Re: Ubiquity allows invalid group name (> 32 characters)

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This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.9.20

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ubiquity (2.9.20) precise; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Restore old fallback code in case /cdrom/casper/filesystem.size doesn't
    exist (LP: #557388).
  * Fix some more uses of deprecated python-apt APIs.
  * ubiquity-dm: Try openbox after openbox-lubuntu (LP: #888107).
  * Thomson SA is now called Technicolor SA (LP: #856992).
  * Limit maximum length of username editing widgets to 32 (LP: #831319).
  * UTF-8-encode the syslog message when a geoname lookup fails, since it
    might include non-ASCII characters entered by the user (LP: #928891).
  * Run test suite under xvfb-run by default when running it from the
    command line.  'tests/run --no-xvfb' inhibits this behaviour for cases
    where it's useful to see the UIs constructed by the test suite.
  * Stop manually inserting newlines in hostname and username errors.  GTK+
    3 seems to do a reasonable job of wrapping these by itself now.
  * Port the user page from GtkTable to GtkGrid, so that we get sensible
    height-for-width geometry management (LP: #830933).
  * Internationalise hostname and username validation errors (LP: #784825).

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Have two separate failsafe attempts for 'fbdev' and 'vesa'.  It's
    possible that /dev/fb0 will exist but be backed by a VGA framebuffer
    causing X to exit non-zero.

  [ Stéphane Graber ]
  * Use the Xubuntu wallpaper when available. (LP: #936572)
  * Detect bogus DNS servers and ignore them. (LP: #760884)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.122ubuntu5, choose-mirror 2.39ubuntu4.
 -- Stephane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>   Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:09:02 -0500

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Ubiquity allows invalid group name (> 32 characters)

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “user-setup” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “user-setup” package in Debian:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  If the username is longer than 32 characters the installation will
  fail with:

  Adding user `eca40a93-4fbd-47d5-b084-8945a5499788' ...
  Adding new group `eca40a93-4fbd-47d5-b084-8945a5499788' (1003) ...
  groupadd: 'eca40a93-4fbd-47d5-b084-8945a5499788' is not a valid group name
  adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 1003 eca40a93-4fbd-47d5-b084-8945a5499788' returned error code 3. Exiting.

  Ubiquity should limit the username length to 32 character to avoid
  this failure.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Aug 22 16:43:38 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-12 (41 days ago)

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