Shane, Thanks for the response, this helps greatly!!
Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: ext Shane McEwan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fedora 17 yum install fails to add couchdb user On 09/10/12 21:45, Noah Slater wrote: > "No more available UIDs" sounds... worrying. There is nothing special > about the "couchdb" user, but it looks like you might have bigger > problems. Are you able to create any other users? Are you trying as root? > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Brizic Michael (Nokia-LC/Chicago) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Following these instructions >> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Fedora17 >> I received an error when trying to add the couchdb user. The output was : >> >> useradd: Can't get unique system UID (no more available UIDs) >> useradd: can't create user >> warning: user couchdb does not exist - using root The problem is that you've run out of system UIDs. By default system UIDs are allocated between the range of 100 and 999. If you already have users using all the UIDs between 100 and 999 then the adduser or useradd command will fail. You have a few options: 1. Delete an existing user that has a UID between 100 and 999 and then reinstall CouchDB; or 2. Edit /etc/login.defs and change the SYS_UID_MAX setting to a larger number where you have free UIDs and reinstall CouchDB; or 3. Create the couchdb user manually as a normal account: sudo adduser --quiet --home /var/lib/couchdb --no-create-home \ --shell /bin/bash --group --gecos "CouchDB Administrator" couchdb Hope this helps! Shane. The information contained in this communication may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete/destroy the original message and any copy of it from your computer or paper files.
