I suspect that in my case (commandline-only-installation with Edgy Beta) the whole user-adding step/question was skipped.
A simple $ adduser username doesn't entirely solve it because : -there's no admin group. Maybe others are missing as well. (update-passwd saw no problems) -the first user needs to be added to several groups This is what I did to partially solve it : # sudo addgroup --system admin (does the gid matter?) # visudo (and I added admin and and my user) $ sudo users-admin (I added my user to the admin group, and I gave my user all privileges) I think I might need to add some other groups as well because : - alacarte doesn't show up in the menu - I can't start some things like : "system->preferences->screensaver" and "administration->user and groups" -- edgy knot3 installs without asking for a username https://launchpad.net/bugs/60888 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
