Package: debian-installer Version: Performed netboot install of testing (lenny) from debian.lcs.mit.edu, on Nov. 11, 2007. Don't know how to get version information of the installer, since it is downloaded from server, and then disappears.
When setting up the user account, the username 'admin' was rejected as being 'reserved' in Debian Etch. 1. This seems unreasonable if true. We have about 50 systems that have this username, and I am sure there are many more systems using 'admin' as a username out in the world. 2. There is no tool to migrate existing systems that have accounts with username 'admin' that I know of, and it is probably impossible to make one. (For example, mysql command line tool defaults to the current username when connecting to the database server, so it would be necessary to update the mysql tables to migrate the 'admin' user to a different username. 3. After the system is installed, adduser allows creating a user with the username 'admin' with no complaint. It is not really a problem that the installer does not allow creation of an account with the username 'admin', just an inconvenience. However, the error message should not indicate that the 'admin' username is reserved, since this is apparently not the case. Bill West BWI 887 Main Street, Suite D Monroe, Connecticut 06468-2800 877 567-7450, 203 261-6027 FAX 203 261-5061 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bwi.com BWI and RackPaq are registered trademarks and Destwin is a trademark of Bill West Incorporated -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]