| uebera|| | Are there known problems regarding a specified uid of a new account? "users: - name: sys-maint uid: 500 no_user_group: true primary_group: adm" results in the creation of uid/gid 1000 (using cloud-init 20.1-10-g71af48df-0ubuntu5). What am I missing? | 20:05 |
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| meena | uebera||: maybe the system doesn't allow to create a user with a uid < 1000, unless you say it's a system user. | 20:11 |
| uebera|| | meena: Good point, will try to set system to true. | 20:14 |
| uebera|| | I wonder, though, why I would not see any error/warning message in that case. | 20:14 |
| uebera|| | Also, according to the documentation, there would not be any home directory in that case (which would make it difficult to populate /home/sys-maint/.ssh/authorized_keys, I guess). | 20:16 |
| meena | uebera||: for the first question: try to doing it locally on the command line. for the second: | 20:18 |
| meena | why does it have to be uid 500? | 20:18 |
| uebera|| | meena: Because that's the uid for said account on xx machines. | 20:30 |
| uebera|| | (Might have been better to choose 400 in the past, but oh well.) | 20:32 |
| uebera|| | meena: For the record, using "system: true" resulted in a home directory owned by root:root, the uid in use is now 998, but .../.ssh/authorized_keys have been populated. Somehow leaves me with more questions regarding uid handling. | 20:58 |
| meena | uebera||: 🙈️🙉️ i have to sleep now. | 20:59 |
| uebera|| | meena: Me too. ;) | 20:59 |
| uebera|| | My bouncer doesn't need sleep, though, so if anyone can provide me with some pointers, I'm happy to go through them tomorrow… :D | 21:00 |
| uebera|| | Ok, I identified the underlying issue myself: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1396362/comments/4 tells you that the value for uid has to be provided as a string rather than an integer. | 21:17 |
| ubot5 | Ubuntu bug 1396362 in cloud-init "Support UID and GID specification in user and group definitions" [Low,Triaged] | 21:17 |
| uebera|| | % id -a | 21:17 |
| uebera|| | uid=500(sys-maint) gid=4(adm) groups=4(adm),27(sudo) | 21:17 |
| uebera|| | \o/ ... gn8 | 21:17 |
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