Debian/Ubuntu at least starts user IDs at 1000. 101 conflicted with syslogd.
Mark On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Aaron Peeler <aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > It's safe, there are no problems to change it. > It used to be 1, we figured 101 would be safe - guess not :) > -A > > > On 5/3/10 3:36 PM, Mark Gardner wrote: > >> It appears that my reservation is failing because the Linux guest already >> has a user with ID 101: >> >> 2010-05-03 15:06:08|7355|20:20|new|utils.pm: >> run_ssh_command(6180)|executing >> SSH command on vmguest-1: >> |7355|20:20|new| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x >> vmguest-1 '/usr/sbin/useradd -u 101 -d /home/admin -m admin -g vcl' 2>&1 >> 2010-05-03 15:06:08|7355|20:20|new|utils.pm: >> run_ssh_command(6262)|run_ssh_command >> output: >> |7355|20:20|new| useradd: UID 101 is not unique >> >> It seems that the value comes from user.uid as shown below. >> >> mysql> select * from user where uid=101; >> >> +----+------+---------+---------------+-----------+----------+---------------+----------------+--------------+----------+------+--------------+-------+--------+-----+-----------+-----------+-------------+-----------+---------------+---------------------+ >> | id | uid | unityid | affiliationid | firstname | lastname | >> preferredname >> | email | emailnotices | IMtypeid | IMid | adminlevelid | width | >> height | bpp | audiomode | mapdrives | mapprinters | mapserial | >> showallgroups | lastupdated | >> >> +----+------+---------+---------------+-----------+----------+---------------+----------------+--------------+----------+------+--------------+-------+--------+-----+-----------+-----------+-------------+-----------+---------------+---------------------+ >> | 1 | 101 | admin | 1 | vcl | admin | >> | r...@localhost | 0 | 1 | NULL | 3 | 1024 >> | >> 768 | 16 | local | 1 | 1 | 1 | >> 1 >> | 2007-05-17 09:58:39 | >> >> +----+------+---------+---------------+-----------+----------+---------------+----------------+--------------+----------+------+--------------+-------+--------+-----+-----------+-----------+-------------+-----------+---------------+---------------------+ >> >> Would it cause problems if I changed it to some other value that doesn't >> conflict with the guest's user IDs? Say 1001 perhaps? >> >> Mark >> >> > > > -- > > Aaron Peeler > Program Manager > Virtual Computing Lab > NC State University > aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu > 919-513-4571 > > -- Mark Gardner --
