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]
