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
