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LP installation gotcha with local accounts called "launchpad"

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From: Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:34:16 +0100
Organization: Canonical Ltd
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I meant to email about this a while ago and it slipped my mind.  My 
conversation with Knut-HB on #launchpad-dev just now reminded me.

Basically, if your local account is called "launchpad", then Launchpad won't 
work!

This is because the account name conflicts with a role called "launchpad" 
which is defined in `security.cfg`.  When running "make schema" it resets the 
permissions for that role, thus removing the super-user permissions that you 
had.

You need to rename your local account and re-assign it super user permissions 
as the `utilities/launchpad-database-setup` script does.

I've updated https://dev.launchpad.net/FAQ with this.