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.
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Josh Kelley
Package: samba
Version: 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1~bpo50+1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
The pam_winbind module leaks file descriptors. wb_common.c keeps its
file descriptor in the winbindd_fd global variable and closes that
through the winbind_close_sock function, but there's no provision for
making sure
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1
Severity: normal
We have scripts that run apt-get upgrade -o APT::Status-Fd=1 to easily
capture apt-get's progress along with its regular output. This works
until apt forks a child process (such as to run localepurge after
upgrade); it closes stdout on fork,
Package: foomatic-db
Version: 20090508-1
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source
Three build problems:
1) foomatic-db may fail to build if CDPATH is set; the cwd line printed by cd
when CDPATH is set breaks the tar pipe used to populate the db/source
directory. debian/rul
Package: grub
Version: 0.97-47lenny2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
If the user or group building the software has spaces in the name (which
is common with Winbind setups that use Windows' "domain users" as the
group name), then the build fails, because it tries to grab the sixth
word out of ls -l'
I'm not sure if you're still trying to locally reproduce this bug or
not, but in case it helps, I was able to reproduce it by trying to
upgrade to sid using the Debian Etch netinstall VMware image off of
http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ and VMware Player 2.0.2.
Josh Kelley
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