On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 21:01, Marc Haber wrote: > > I believe this was done because there is some Debian policy that a > > weird user name must be created in this case. > > No, the weird account name was chosen in absense of a formal policy > to minimize the chance of clashes with account names deliberately > created by the local admin.
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