Wes Garland wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> Any reason this shouldn't be configurable?

 WG> ??
 WG>  
 WG> Why would you want to configure the default configuration?

In case the hard-wired default collides with something else on the system...

There exists on my setup a user called bbs who lives in a group called bbs.
 When somebody wanted me to try another package,  one of the things that
came out was that _it_ wanted to be a user called bbs in a group called
bbs.  With apparently no way to change that.

Yeah,  it's not likely that we're gonna have a user called maximus on the
system,  but you never can tell what might happen...  :-)

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