On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:14:36AM +0000, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Monday 12 November 2007, Bill West wrote: > > > When setting up the user account, the username 'admin' was rejected > > > as being 'reserved' in Debian Etch. > > > > According to the comments in the list of reserved user names, admin is > > included because it's a "Other miscellaneous system users/groups created by > > common packages". > > I don't know exactly which common package creates admin (I suspect some > > database package). > > From the changelog comment when this was added: > > [ Colin Watson ] > * Detect and error out on reserved usernames, i.e. those that are already > used by some parts of the system. Unfortunately there's no particularly > straightforward way to identify a reserved username, and the only way I > can think of is to maintain a blacklist; so I've collated this from the > base-passwd master files and those user and group names I found on some > of my systems. Feel free to extend this as the need arises. > > So, Colin might tell this if he can find the systems he was looking at > when he did that change and he can find the information about which > package is using "admin".
Ubuntu creates the admin group and adds the first user to it in order to grant them sudo privileges. I forgot to comment this in the reserved-usernames file at the time. If you want to diverge on this, you can remove it if you like and I can always add it back in for Ubuntu. It'll screw anyone who tries to sidegrade to Ubuntu though. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]