Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved
Package: debian-installer
Version:
Performed netboot install of testing (lenny) from debian.lcs.mit.edu,
on Nov. 11, 2007. Don't know how to get version information of
the installer, since it is downloaded from server, and then disappears.
When setting up the user account, the username 'admin' was rejected
as being 'reserved' in Debian Etch.
1. This seems unreasonable if true. We have about 50 systems that
have this username, and I am sure there are many more systems using
'admin' as a username out in the world.
2. There is no tool to migrate existing systems that have accounts
with username 'admin' that I know of, and it is probably impossible
to make one. (For example, mysql command line tool defaults to the
current username when connecting to the database server, so it would
be necessary to update the mysql tables to migrate the 'admin' user
to a different username.
3. After the system is installed, adduser allows creating a user
with the username 'admin' with no complaint.
It is not really a problem that the installer does not allow creation
of an account with the username 'admin', just an inconvenience. However,
the error message should not indicate that the 'admin' username is reserved,
since this is apparently not the case.
Bill West
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