Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Don't allow root as username

Bug #56485 reported by Jonh Wendell on 2006-08-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47861: crashes if reserved username is selected. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

In the installation, the user is asked to create an username. The installation program should not allow 'root' as username.

I had a problem yesterday with an user because of this. After installation, he could not login (as root, of course) because gdm locks root login by default. I had to instruct him to switch to terminal, create a normal user account, add this account to admin group and back to gdm to login into gnome.

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Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote on 2006-08-28:

bug 47861 is very similar ...

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Bob Henz (henz-2) wrote on 2006-09-09:

I had a similar problem. I think "admin" is also a restricted username which should not be allowed during installation.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-09-15:

Yes, this is bug 47861. I have half of this done in user-setup upstream (including all the usernames that have caused problems so far, plus quite a few more); I need to incorporate this into Ubuntu and do the ubiquity UI side of things next.