ACTION: if you have "admin" hardcoded in scripts, this is a warning that things will change soon(ish)

[roger peppe]

On 29 September 2014 21:51, Tim Penhey <tim.penhey at canonical.com> wrote:
> This isn't looking to change any existing environments.
> All current logins will continue to work.
>
> This was only going to be for NEW environments, and only those that are
> created after the change has landed, which it isn't yet.
>
> The idea is that if you want to control the name of the initial user,
> you pass it through on the bootstrap command line.

I'm curious to find out why this is specifically useful. Unix works OK
by always bootstrapping with a single user named "root". It seems to me that
we could do the same with "admin".

  cheers,
    rog.