[bug?] Trouble adding users

[Von Loghausen]

Hello all,

 

I'm running a slackware-based unraid install (so maybe this isn't the right forum to post), and I'm having trouble adding users. I've enabled user-level security, but when I try to add a user, the page simply 'reloads', with no user added.

I use no 'illegal characters' (according to wiki) in username or password, however the next entries Do appear in syslog;

May 25 14:42:05 blackbox emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (145): exit status: 4

May 25 14:42:05 blackbox emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (146): exit status: 1

May 25 14:42:05 blackbox emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (147): exit status: 1

 

I'm guessing that I did something wrong during the install-to-hdd part and I was hoping someone could point out where, and if necessary, scold me for it

[Joe L.]

Hello all,

 

I'm running a slackware-based unraid install (so maybe this isn't the right forum to post), and I'm having trouble adding users. I've enabled user-level security, but when I try to add a user, the page simply 'reloads', with no user added.

I use no 'illegal characters' (according to wiki) in username or password, however the next entries Do appear in syslog;

May 25 14:42:05 blackbox emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (145): exit status: 4

May 25 14:42:05 blackbox emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (146): exit status: 1

May 25 14:42:05 blackbox emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (147): exit status: 1

 

I'm guessing that I did something wrong during the install-to-hdd part and I was hoping someone could point out where, and if necessary, scold me for it

only  a guess, but perhaps it is trying to invoke a command you did not install. 

[Von Loghausen]

Hehe, that would be my guess as well. Question is: which one? I expect one of them to be smbpasswd, but it's both present in /boot/config as in /usr/bin.

[Von Loghausen]

Found it. Appearntly the actually error itself was outputted to the monitor.

"useradd: uid 1000 is not unique"

Followed by errors from chpasswd and (I guess) smbpasswd.

Which is true, since I already added a user account for pulseaudio and xbmc. After removing the account with uid 1000, I could succesfully add a user through the webinterface.

 

Does this qualify as a bug? Or is the amount of people who actually add users themselves too insignificant to matter?

[Joe L.]

You probably did not update the copies of the password files unRAID keeps when you added your own users.  I think it uses those copies as a starting point when it goes to add new users.  (The copies are kept in the config folder)