Quoting Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org): > 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.
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