Bug#688217: Failure to create username with UTF-8 symbol

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:12:51 +0100 Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: wiki.debian.org
> Severity: important
>
> Tried to create a new user account with a UTF-8 character
> (e.g. Flürble). This failed. Log excerpt:
>
> mod_wsgi (pid=29720): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/srv/
wiki.debian.org/bin/moin.wsgi'.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/werkzeug/wsgi.py", line 406, in
__call__
>     return self.app(environ, start_response)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 282, in
__call__
>     response = run(context)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 88, in run
>     response = dispatch(request, context, action_name)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 136, in
dispatch
>     response = handle_action(context, pagename, action_name)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 195, in
handle_action
>     handler(context.page.page_name, context)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/action/newaccount.py", line
256, in execute
>     request.theme.add_msg(_create_user(request), "dialog")
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/action/newaccount.py", line
140, in _create_user
>     theuser.account_creation_host], shell=False, stdin=None,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
>     errread, errwrite)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1153, in _execute_child
>     raise child_exception
> TypeError: execv() arg 2 must contain only strings
>
> Looks like a bug in the interface to account creation checking. Sigh.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dashboard

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