{OOPS, if this ought to be in the other area, mods please move}

 

Ok, all is working well with my previous 'trials' with getting my system stable.  (D#!#%#!# SIL3132 card!)

 

Am now on 5.0-beta14 -- have run the "permissions" utility. 

 

Originally, I had the user "root" only.  That is the ONLY user that appeared in my "Users" tab. 

 

 

Now I've tried to add the user "Chuck" -- failed.  Thinking it was adding ANY new user,  I fought a bit with it.

 

Tried a test... added "testuser" -- volia!  Worked

 

Tried adding "Chuck" -- failed again...

 

Tried to add "testuser2" -- volia!  Worked....

 

 

So what am I doing wrong -- seems that "former" users can't be added.

 

Did I miss a step?

 

...Chuck

 

testuser added OK - 

Mar  2 18:56:29 unraid emhttp: shcmd (27): useradd -g users -d / -s /bin/false -c 'testuser' testuser |$stuff$ logger (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:29 unraid useradd[2900]: new user: name=testuser, UID=1000, GID=100, home=/, shell=/bin/false
Mar  2 18:56:29 unraid emhttp: shcmd (28): chpasswd <<< testuser:"*****" (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:29 unraid emhttp: shcmd (29): smbpasswd -L -s -a testuser <<< "*****"$'\n'"*****" (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:29 unraid emhttp: shcmd (30): cp /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd /boot/config (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:29 unraid emhttp: shcmd (31): rmmod md-mod |$stuff$ logger (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:29 unraid emhttp: shcmd (32): udevadm settle (Other emhttp)

 

Adding user Chuck failed

Mar  2 18:56:55 unraid emhttp: shcmd (43): useradd -g users -d / -s /bin/false -c 'Chuck' Chuck |$stuff$ logger (Other emhttp)
[color=red][b]Mar  2 18:56:55 unraid logger: useradd: invalid user name 'Chuck'[/b][/color]
Mar  2 18:56:55 unraid emhttp: shcmd (44): chpasswd <<< Chuck:"*****" (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:55 unraid emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (44): exit status: 1 (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:55 unraid emhttp: shcmd (45): smbpasswd -L -s -a Chuck <<< "*****"$'\n'"*****" (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:55 unraid emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (45): exit status: 1 (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:55 unraid emhttp: shcmd (46): cp /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd /boot/config (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:56 unraid emhttp: shcmd (47): rmmod md-mod |$stuff$ logger (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:56:56 unraid emhttp: shcmd (48): udevadm settle (Other emhttp)

Adding testuser2 -- no problems...

Mar  2 18:58:18 unraid emhttp: shcmd (75): useradd -g users -d / -s /bin/false -c 'testuser2' testuser2 |$stuff$ logger (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:58:18 unraid useradd[3659]: new user: name=testuser2, UID=1001, GID=100, home=/, shell=/bin/false
Mar  2 18:58:18 unraid emhttp: shcmd (76): chpasswd <<< testuser2:"*****" (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:58:18 unraid emhttp: shcmd (77): smbpasswd -L -s -a testuser2 <<< "*****"$'\n'"*****" (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:58:18 unraid emhttp: shcmd (78): cp /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd /boot/config (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:58:19 unraid emhttp: shcmd (79): rmmod md-mod |$stuff$ logger (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 18:58:19 unraid emhttp: shcmd (80): udevadm settle (Other emhttp)

 

Full syslog attached.

syslog-2012-03-02.txt

Try all lower case. I think capital letters don't work.

Try all lower case. I think capital letters don't work.

 

Gosh, that seems too easy.  (Or lacking an error message that makes sense)

 

Just tried it -- Yep.. it let me add the lower-case "chuck".  It let me, without problems.  Now, is that because of the Upper case attempt?  Or because "Chuck" existed before, and "chuck" doesn't.

 

  Nope, just tried creating a user "Testcaps" -- failed

 

Mar  2 19:23:13 unraid emhttp: shcmd (135): useradd -g users -d / -s /bin/false -c 'Testcaps' Testcaps |$stuff$ logger (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 19:23:13 unraid logger: useradd: invalid user name 'Testcaps'
Mar  2 19:23:13 unraid emhttp: shcmd (136): chpasswd <<< Testcaps:"*****" (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 19:23:13 unraid emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (136): exit status: 1 (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 19:23:13 unraid emhttp: shcmd (137): smbpasswd -L -s -a Testcaps <<< "*****"$'\n'"*****" (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 19:23:13 unraid emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (137): exit status: 1 (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 19:23:13 unraid emhttp: shcmd (138): cp /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd /boot/config (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 19:23:13 unraid emhttp: shcmd (139): rmmod md-mod |$stuff$ logger (Other emhttp)
Mar  2 19:23:13 unraid emhttp: shcmd (140): udevadm settle (Other emhttp)

 

It does seem to not like capital letters.  Ugh.

 

Musta missed that somewhere.

 

Ugh.  I think (I want to remember) that all my former user names were mixed case, or at least capitalized.

 

Oh well.

 

Unless I run into something else related to this,  I will mark it {solved} shortly.

 

(Or if anybody has any other input...)

 

Geeze... I feel semi-dumb here.

 

...Chuck

They might have been mixed case on Windows, but unRAID has always only allowed lower case.

 

I agree, an error message is all it would take to eliminate the frustration and loss of hair.

 

Joe L.