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Re: Debian Stole My Name!



Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:01:59PM +0800, paragasu wrote:
>> maybethe debian installer do not permit you to use the username hal.
>> Create any user. after the installer finish.. you can login and create
>> user 'Hal' with
>> adduser.. ;)
> 
> hal package have changed ...
> hal (0.5.7.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   [ Sjoerd Simons ]
>   * New upstream release
>   * debian/hal.postinst,debian/hal.postrm,debian/rules: Rename the hal daemon
>     user to haldaemon (was hal)

If debian-installer is still reserving  the name "hal"  for the hal
package, then this should be fixed within debian-installer.

Please file a bug against the "debian-installer" package.

Cheers,
Michael

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