Topic: HELP - User www deleted

[Gert]

Hi

httpd wont start. It complaines about "httpd: bad user name www"

I created a random user by the name of "www" (i wasnt thinking) and then deleted it.

How can i recreate the www user?

"db accounts show www" shows the following:

www=user-deleted
    City=
    Company=
    Dept=
    EmailForward=local
    FirstName=FTP
    ForwardAddress=
    Gid=5025
    LastName=qqq
    PasswordSet=yes
    Phone=
    Street=
    Uid=5026
    VPNClientAccess=no

PLEASE HELP.

[mercyh]

Gert,

I don't know how to fix your problem, however, on my working server

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db accounts show does not return a www user at all.

Please do not act on this suggestion until somebody else with more knowledge weighs in

Possibly deleting the www db key would help.

[mercyh]

The quickest way to catch the eye of a Dev is to post it out on the bugtracker. (I know it is not exactly a bug but you surely are not the first that has pulled this trick.) 

[Gert]

Thank you

Yes I know its not supposed to be there. It only shows user accounts created by SME Server Manager. At leat i can get the UID now.

I tried the following: "useradd -u 5025 www"
and get the repsone: "useradd: group www exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use -g."

[m]

Simply add a new www user:

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useradd -g www www

[Gert]

what about the uid?

[m]

what about the uid?

the next available will be taken

[Gert]

i know. but wount i have file permision problems then?

[Gert]

Seems that the new uid works fine.

I did: "useradd -g www www"

and now it works fine again.
thank you

[m]

the original uid was < 5000, usually 102. sme users have uids >= 5000
Figure out the original uid either from /etc/passwd- or from /etc/passwd from your latest backup. Or use the groupid of www as the uid. (the usually should be identical  on SME)

[byte]

The quickest way to catch the eye of a Dev is to post it out on the bugtracker. (I know it is not exactly a bug but you surely are not the first that has pulled this trick.) 

Maybe the quickest but we would re-route (marking bug INVALID) all support questions back to these forums as it was something the sys admin done rather than a potential bug within the SME Server.

[byte]

I created a random user by the name of "www" (i wasnt thinking) and then deleted it.

Please explain how you created the user name "www" ?

[Gert]

The user was created with lat

[CharlieBrady]

The user was created with lat

Then there's a bug in lat.

[Gert]

I tested it now. Lat was unable to create a user called "www", but was able to delete it.

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[root@terraserv temp]# lat-users -a -c="www|www|.|www"
Creating user account for www (Uid:5003).
An error occurred while creating account 'www'.
[root@terraserv temp]# lat-users -d -c="www"
Do you want to delete user 'www'?
All files belonging to this user account will be deleted! [yes/NO/all] yes
Deleting user account 'www'.
The group '*' does not exist on this server.
So to correct my first post: I must have just deleted the www user with lat.