Thank you. We were having that discussion here about adding 500.
Thanks again for the quick reply. On 2012-08-29, at 3:02 PM, "Dmitri Chebotarov" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yannick > > I have had the same issue with Linux images and did the same - removed -u > option from useradd command in Linux.pm. > Everything works fine without this option. > > I think having the same user id would be important if you need to match > userid across multiple Linux system (ie. using NFS mounted volumes, etc.). > But for a single Linux reservation it's OK to let system choose user id. > > Another option would be to increment userid by 500 for userid less then 500. > This is if you need to have the same user id across multiple systems. > > Thanks. > > -- > Dmitri Chebotarov > Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging > 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 > Phone: (703) 993-6175 > Fax: (703) 993-3404 > > > On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 14:53 , Yannick Charbonneau wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> We encountered an issue with Linux Images, users could NOT connect to >> machines. >> >> I found in the vcld.log; >> >> “useradd: UID 4 is not unique” my image already had a UID 4. >> >> I removed “-u $user_uid” from $useradd_string and it appears to have “fixed” >> the problem. >> >> What did I break by doing this? What is the proper way to fix this? Remove >> all account except root from the image? >> >> Thanks >> >> Yanik > > >
