Bug#450954: Username 'admin' is reserved

Quoting Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org):

> Ubuntu creates the admin group and adds the first user to it in order to
> grant them sudo privileges. I forgot to comment this in the
> reserved-usernames file at the time.
>
> If you want to diverge on this, you can remove it if you like and I can
> always add it back in for Ubuntu. It'll screw anyone who tries to
> sidegrade to Ubuntu though.

I personnally think it wouldn't be good to diverge on this. I think we all benefit from the differences between Debian and Ubuntu installer being as close as possible.

I therefore suggest we keep admin as a reserved login, but better document this in th reserved-usernames file.

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