Ticket #11828 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 13 months ago

Last modified 11 months ago

olpc UID has changed in 12.1.0

Reported by: pgf Owned by: dsd
Priority: high Milestone: 12.1.0
Component: distro Version: Development build as of this date
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Action Needed: no action Verified: no
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Description

prior to 12.1.0, the olpc user had uid 500.

now olpc is uid 1000. (12.1.0 os8)

this matters when using olpc-update, since /home is preserved. in my case, neither gnome nor sugar came up correctly: gnome came up "blank" -- just the background, no toolbar, and when sugar was selected (by removing .olpc-active-desktop), and X restarted, X wouldn't come up at all, but kept restarting.

editing /etc/passwd and /etc/group back to 500:500 got things working.

Change History

Changed 13 months ago by dsd

  • owner set to dsd
  • component changed from not assigned to distro

Changed 13 months ago by dsd

Needs retesting in 12.1.0 build 10. I think we can accept this change without further hassle, since olpc-configure (as of build 10) will detect a home version change and reset all permissions. If so I will add a comment documenting this.

Changed 13 months ago by pgf

so olpc-configure will do some sort of a chown -R of /home/olpc?

Changed 13 months ago by dsd

I thought it did, but I was getting it confused with some other code.

Nevertheless I think its the right solution to add this (if /home/olpc UID == 500). Do you see any problems with this? Because otherwise we have to go around hacking ther things such as PAM configs which now say that user accounts start at 1000, other accounts are system accounts.

Changed 13 months ago by pgf

if this were a "real" laptop i would have to say we should 'sed -i s/1000/500 /etc/passwd, not chowning the contents of /home/olpc. changing a user's uid is kind of unfriendly, and if we're preserving the users content, we should preserve their identity as well.

but i suppose chowning is the right solution for us.

(i got hit with this at home too -- suddenly the gnome login screen doesn't offer "pgf" as a login choice, because it's no longer in the "right" range, so i have to select "other" and type the username to log in. it was really a poor decision to change the system account threshold that way.)

Changed 13 months ago by dsd

  • next_action changed from design to package

Fixed in olpc-utils 3440b004fee7d408bf150455564a09c9196ca3bb

Changed 12 months ago by dsd

  • next_action changed from package to add to build

Fixed in olpc-utils-2.0.11

Changed 12 months ago by pbrobinson

  • next_action changed from add to build to test in build

in os12

Changed 11 months ago by greenfeld

  • status changed from new to closed
  • next_action changed from test in build to no action
  • resolution set to fixed

Upgrading from 11.3.1 os885 to 12.1.0 os15 and then os16 sets the UID properly on the home directory as best as I can tell.

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