(Cc Colin Watson to get attention)
Quoting Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl):
> 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".
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