Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved
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
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