Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved
Remove 'admin' username from d-i blacklist, please. -- Peter Teslenko
Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved
Josh Kelley (2014-02-11): > Ubuntu no longer uses the admin group (and, as far as I can tell, > never used the admin username). > > http://askubuntu.com/a/122500/5682 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/893842 (The latter contradicts what you put in parentheses.) > Based on this, I suggest removing admin from the list of reserved names. Thanks, but I'll leave that up to Colin. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved
Ubuntu no longer uses the admin group (and, as far as I can tell, never used the admin username). http://askubuntu.com/a/122500/5682 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/893842 Based on this, I suggest removing admin from the list of reserved names. -- Josh Kelley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved
Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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. I personnally think it wouldn't be good to diverge on this. I think we all benefit from the differences between Debian and Ubuntu installer being as close as possible. I therefore suggest we keep admin as a reserved login, but better document this in th reserved-usernames file. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:14:36AM +, 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]
Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved
(Cc Colin Watson to get attention) Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > reassign 450954 user-setup > severity 450954 minor > tags 450954 wontfix > thanks > > 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". signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved
reassign 450954 user-setup severity 450954 minor tags 450954 wontfix thanks 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). This means that although admin is not actually used in a default installation, having it already in use could cause problems if that particular Debian package is installed later. Therefore we prefer to list it as "reserved" to prevent its accidental use, but you are of course free to ignore that and create the account manually after installation (as you've already done). Tagging the report "won't fix", but leaving it open as others may disagree. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved
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]
