Questions tagged [uid]
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Debian 12.5 - can't create user - "User ID is not unique/already in use"
I tried to install Eaton Intelligent Power Protector onto a Proxmox 6.5.11-8 machine (based on 12.5 Debian without desktop environment).
Installation failed as the installer could not install the ...
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Why can't root bypass permissions in an ID-mapped mount?
Why does global root (root in the initial user namespace) not have the ability to read all files regardless of permission when ID-mapped mounts (see "ID-mapped mounts" under man 2 ...
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Is it possible to create multiple users on Linux with the same UID and GID, especially UID and GID 0?
The ArchWiki - rsnapshot page mentions creating multiple users with uid and gid set to 0 as a means of creating users that login remotely to perform backups.
One thing you can do to mitigate the ...
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What should the group of a user in Linux be to access samba?
I have a friend who works at a business where the IT guy has passed away and I am trying to help them until they can hire someone else. It is a workgroup networked with a Linux server. They recently ...
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How to make command `id` print different real and effective UID in Ubuntu
The info page of command id states that it will output the effective user ID if different from the real user ID. I have been trying to achieve that somehow, running the command with the Bash shell as ...
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What causes `newuidmap` to be dissallowed in new user namespace?
I expected
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
to be the output of both
$ rootlesskit id
$ unshare -U bash -c 'newuidmap $$ 0 '"$(id -u)"' 1; id'
however the somewhat more verbose -x ...
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What is everybody user & group on Android and why there's no everybody user & group on Linux?
In Root Explorer I have the option 9997-everybody and 9999-nobody. If I change the owner of any file to everybody:everybody, will it be fully editable by all users? This user does not exist on the ...
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Which UID/GID is free for new package
After reading https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/222376/246754 How rpm ensure that no uid/gid clash with each other ?
What I am looking is similar to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/...
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Why does the UID of /dev/tty1, tty2 change preiodically on Ubuntu 22.04
I am on Ubuntu 22.04.
I noticed that the tty which runs the Ubuntu GUI periodically changes from tty2, to tty3, what is the reason for this?
I also noticed other UID changes, for instance tty1 has ...
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Loop over users problem
I am struggling with a loop over users id, i want to list all the users in /etc/passwd whose id are greater than 999, it doesn't recognize my if .. fi sentence and it is important to say that I am ...
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passwd source code
I am trying to look at the source code of the passwd and gpasswd programs. These tools check the effective UID set to zero to complete execution successfully. But I am a noob to C and couldn't find ...
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Is there a file besides /etc/passwd that contains/defines my UID?
Trying to learn about UIDs and GIDs.
Various online reading led me to believe that my UID is saved in /etc/passwd, but this doesn't appear to be the case on a server where I work:
$ whoami
user1
$ cat ...
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Which command should I use as root to spawn a process with overridden numeric uid/gid/groups?
Which command (available in distro repositories) should I use start a shell with specified numeric uid, gid and groups? Typically su is used to change from root to other user, but it tries to look up ...
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undo usermod for root?
At some point where I wanted to do
sudo usermod -v 1000-1000 USER
sudo usermod -w 1000-1000 USER
I accidentally applied both these commands to root.
According to the documentation I can undo these ...
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Can't change gid with mount
I'm mounting a MicroSD card using this command:
mount -t vfat -o uid=1001,gid=1001 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/sd
After that, I issue a mount command and notice that gid=100 in the listing.
I've tried ...
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Is there any file/directory permission effect if change uid or gid on Linux?
If group and user's settings are
group name: group1
gid: 2000
user name: user1
uid: 2000
Some directory's permission is
Directory: /application
Owner: user1
Group: group1
When change the gid and ...
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Sync LDAP groups and UIDs with Active Directory
Currently, our organization has a working OpenLDAP server that we use to login to our Linux environments. However, due to the increase in Windows devices, the higher-ups have decided to migrate to an ...
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Add another root with different uid and name
I know that root has full admin rights thanks to something in the kernel that gives to uid 0 those rights.
I think that also the name "root" is defined in the kernel, right?
And the location ...
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One particular UID causes very slow performance
One of our accounts on a CentOS 7 machine experienced very slow disk read/write.
I started looking into this because the 1007 user on this machine
ran wget much slower than other user/machines.
id
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Attempting to get root UID from root EUID
So here is the situation. I have a hypothetical system with 2 users - 'user1' and 'root'. The user 'user1' is just a normal non-sudoer user with uid=1000, and the root, is just a normal root user with ...
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Can not execute sudo commands on aws ec2 instance ssh http all ports are off
recently I have been facing a serious issue on one of my servers. While accessing my server with solar putty on windows I got error accessing the server message on the response. So I tried from my ...
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Trying to change uid to user, but says it already exists
I'm trying to change the UID of user ec2-user to 500, when I try the following command getting the error UID already exists.
sudo usermod -u 500 ec2-user
usermod: UID '500' already exists
I'm doing a ...
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Problem in gaining uid of the system caller in a system call LKM using cred.h
I was trying to get the uid of the process runner which is calling my syscall. I use linux/cred.h and its macro called current_uid() .
The problem is that it returns a type which is unknown for me, ...
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Allow ssh access for users with certain UID from certain IP's
I need to allow ssh access to all users, but if the UID is between 6000 and 6500 I need to check if the IP where the ssh is coming from is in the file /etc/remote-hosts.
/etc/remote-hosts
1.2.3.4
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Start NFS server without UID and GID of Unix directory
I'm trying to set up a NFS Server on Windows to map a folder of a Unix system connected to the same network.
The second step in the tutorial How to set up a free NFS server on Windows 10 (sections 4 ...
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How can I test that a buildah script is run under buildah-unshare?
If I have a script that uses buildah mount. I use the same way the docs specify,
mnt=$(buildah mount $ctr)
If I invoke my script sh ./build.sh, I get
cannot mount using driver overlay in rootless ...
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Prevent deb installation from creating new accounts
We are configuring a variety of servers programmatically, and we periodically need to be able to migrate volumes from one server to another. After migrating a volume, we are currently executing chown ...
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Switch to other user instead root while using sudo
I would like to redirect (switch) one execution to other user instead root while using sudo.
Example: sudo startup.sh will execute the startup.sh as root,
but what is needed is for it to be executed ...
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an executable emits “pax archive volume change required”
I'm trying to run a ./configure executable for a software (I'm doing it through a remote Linux machine using PuTTY) and at some point it says:
ATTENTION! pax archive volume change required.
Ready for ...
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Changing minimum UID to SSH into server
Our Linux HPC server (RHEL 7) only accepts logins to interactive sessions from users with UID >= 1000. However, some of our users have UID lower than that because their usernames were created on a ...
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Changing the User UID of a User with No Name
If a user has an UID but no name, ie:
$ whoami
whoami: cannot find name for user ID 1001
$ id
uid=1001 gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
is it possible to change the UID but still leave the user name ...
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Perl resets the EUID only when executing multiple commands through `env - /usr/bin/perl -e 'system("...")'`? [duplicate]
I was playing around with setuid perl for command execution (insecure).
I learned from another question, that env - /usr/bin/perl -e 'system("...")' doesn't reset the EUID to RUID, like it's the ...
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Proxmox LXC storage share, permission problems
I'm totally new in these enviroments but I'm trying to learn.
I installed proxmox on a single SSD, then attached one HDD(/dev/sdb) to the system for media storage. The basic idea was to create one ...
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POSIX compliant way of writing conditional operators [duplicate]
In bash you can do
if [ $(echo $UID) != 0 ]
then
echo "Run as root"
exit
fi
This returns an error message when I run the script with dash or other POSIX-compliant shells. How do you do this ...
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Solaris 11.4 RBAC works for vim, not for su
I want to access some commands as root, for a normal user.
I create the profile
profiles -p "privileged"
set desc="privileged profile"
add cmd=/bin/su
set euid=0
end
commit
exit
Then I add profile ...
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Why do processes have UID/GID?
What's the point of UID and GID in processes' parameters?
There is EUID, RUID, SUID (and for Linux FSUID) that determine process privileges. I can't think what's the use of UID/GID in such scenario.
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change UID and GID file attributes on read only file system with mount [duplicate]
I have some file image of filesystem, and I want mount it with parameter changing files and directories UID and GID. I cannot change its parameters, because it is read-only filesystem.
I found some ...
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Questions about the saved user ID
As far as I understood the different user IDs are as follows (from the perspective of a process):
real user ID: the user ID that owns the process
effective user ID: the user ID which determines what ...
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UID/GID mapping for external storage across different POSIX systems [duplicate]
I have access to multiple POSIX desktops where my personal user account has different UID/GID. I use an ext4 formatted portable SSD, which is great for my work, except for the permissioning issues ...
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Get users with UID >= 1000 from /etc/passwd
I am trying to get usernames from /etc/passwd if UID equal/greater than 1000 using a for loop. The below simple bash script works but prints the username twice for some reason.
#!/bin/bash
for ...
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Specify UID/GID for NFS mount (CentOS 7)
I have two servers svrA and svrB (both CentOS 7), where svrA is a turn-key system so I cannot change anything on it, and svrB is the one I am working on. svrA contains log files I need to transfer to ...
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Predictable UIDs of users created in the process of portage package installation
Adding users is specified in portage ebuild files using the enewuser function. Some ebuilds call this function with a specific UID (second argument), others either don't provide the argument or ...
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When did user accounts using UIDs above 1000 become normal? And why?
We have a really old NIS domain which is mapping some user accounts to UIDs less than 1000. I'm wondering
when did using UIDs greater than or equal to 1000 for human users become 'standard',
why did ...
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ID inheritance – Which IDs?
I'm learning UNIX file permissions / ID inheritance and would like to clarify something:
I have this list of permissions, users, groups and files:
-rwxr-xr-x userA A foo
-rw-rwsr-x userB B bar
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How essential are usernames ( compared to uids )?
Background:
I recently read about a freedesktop.org-bug which allowed executing any systemctl command for uid > INT_MAX. Thus I ran:
root@host$> useradd -u 4000000000 largeuiduser
root@host$&...
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Is there a recommended way to access files owned by a non-user UID?
Suppose a multiboot computer on which two GNU/Linux distributions are installed, each with its own user(s). Say those users don't share the same UID over the two systems.
Now one needs to access the ...
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Assignment of UID and GID from Active Directory
My CentOS 7 machine has successfully joined a domain FOOBAR (as verified by realm list) and here's the information about an user coming from the AD (non-local):
[root@centos7 ~]# id jdoe@FOOBAR....
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Mapping user to filesystem user when UID's mismatch?
Say I have a user named user with UID 1001 on one system and the same user (named user) with another UID, let's say 1002.
If I unplug the disk drive from the second system and plug it into the first, ...
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How to create multiple IDs with same UID in AIX ? How to change UID of IDs in AIX?
How to create multiple IDs with same UID in AIX ?
How to change UID of IDs in AIX ?
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First process in a new Linux user namespace needs to call setuid()?
I'm learning about Linux user namespaces and I'm observing a strange behavior which isn't completely clear to me.
I've created a range of UIDs in initial user namespaces to which I can map UIDs in ...
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