[Bug 820364] New: Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c0 Summary: Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: 64bit OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: agemen@hotmail.fr QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 Hi everybody, I think I've caught a little bug... I've just made a fresh new install of openSUSE 12.3 on a computer with both a SSD and a classical hard-drive. I've decided to mount partitions from the hard drive in the home of my default user, the home being in the SSD. During the configuration, I've set the mountpoint for this partition to /home/myUser/data. I've then configured my login/password for my user and so on... After rebooting, I couldn't log in. The user myUser did not exist. Howeve, the folders /home/myUser/data existed and the partition was mounted in the right place. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure a partition to be mounted in the home of the user you'll create 2.Configure the user settings 3.Finish the install Actual Results: It's not possible to login as the user you configured. In fact, the user appears not to be created (and consequently his home is not filled). Expected Results: I expected the user to be created. This problem can easily be workarounded. Simply log in as root, create the user with YaST. I've done that after umounting the partition in /home/myUser/data and removing both data and myUser directories. Remounted data then, in the good place, and things are okay. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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31 May 31 May

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c Ye Yuan changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |yyuan@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |yast2-maintainers@suse.de |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c1 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |agemen@hotmail.fr --- Comment #1 from Arvin Schnell 2013-05-31 08:10:00 UTC --- Please provide YaST logs, see http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_YaST. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c2 --- Comment #2 from Alexis G 2013-06-07 06:14:03 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=543259) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=543259) Yast2 logs. Sorry for the delay - I hope nothing has been lost. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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2 Aug 2 Aug

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c Jiří Suchomel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|agemen@hotmail.fr | AssignedTo|yast2-maintainers@suse.de |jsuchome@suse.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c3 Jiří Suchomel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |agemen@hotmail.fr --- Comment #3 from Jiří Suchomel 2013-08-02 09:13:26 UTC --- User creation failed with this message: L'ID utilisateur sélectionné n'est pas attribué. Sélectionnez un nombre entier valide compris entre 1000 et 60000. I do not speak French, so I assume this is a complaint about selected UID, right? Do you still have a file /var/lib/YaST2/users_first_stage.ycp ? If so, please attach it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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27 Aug 27 Aug

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c4 --- Comment #4 from Jiří Suchomel 2013-08-27 06:29:26 UTC --- Any news? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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29 Aug 29 Aug

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c5 --- Comment #5 from Alexis G 2013-08-29 11:43:39 UTC --- The translation may be something like "The selected user ID is not assigned. Select a valid number between 1000 and 60000." I attach the file. you requested -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c6 --- Comment #6 from Alexis G 2013-08-29 11:45:02 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=554930) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=554930) Yast logs - users first stage The file has not been touched since installation. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c7 Jiří Suchomel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED InfoProvider|agemen@hotmail.fr | --- Comment #7 from Jiří Suchomel 2013-08-29 14:29:01 UTC --- Now I see where is the problem. When YaST tries to create the user, it checks if a user directory exists and assigns the user the UID of the home directory owner. That is useful for situations when you are actually mounting some of your old home directories during system reinstallation.... which seems to be more often than your case with a mount point into the user's directory. Because in your case, YaST finds that root is the owner of the (existing) directory and tries to create user with UID 0; which fails -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c8 Jiří Suchomel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |agemen@hotmail.fr --- Comment #8 from Jiří Suchomel 2013-09-02 12:02:29 UTC --- I actually think your setup should not be supported. Or what do you expect, do you want to change the ownership of root-created directories to your user? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c9 --- Comment #9 from Alexis G 2013-09-06 14:42:32 UTC --- If I understand correctly the process, directories for mount points are prepared before users are created (that would seem quite logical). Consequently, I understand the observed behaviour... In my case, /home/alexis is owned by root before the user alexis is created. Am I right ? knowing that, I'll now prepare my setups in a different way in order to avoid this problem. Considering what have been described, I think it would be difficult to detect that we have here a newly created directory that aims to host a mount point... Probably not a bug, so, but I think it may be documented somewhere else than in this bug report. In my opinion, that would be enough to be able to close this bug report. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 820364] Default user not created if a partition is mounted in its home

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c10 Jiří Suchomel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|agemen@hotmail.fr | Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #10 from Jiří Suchomel 2013-09-09 07:01:56 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9)

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If I understand correctly the process, directories for mount points are prepared before users are created (that would seem quite logical). Consequently, I understand the observed behaviour... In my case, /home/alexis is owned by root before the user alexis is created. Am I right ?

Exactly.

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knowing that, I'll now prepare my setups in a different way in order to avoid this problem. Considering what have been described, I think it would be difficult to detect that we have here a newly created directory that aims to host a mount point...

YaST probably could be able to detect such situation and behave according to that. But it would mean adding special handling for a case that almost none is using, which seems like a waste of resources. Therefor I will close this bug as WONTFIX. What you can do: if you want to have special partition for part of your home directory, create it during partitioning, but with different path (like /data) and later you can create symlink to this place from your home. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820364#c11 --- Comment #11 from Alexis G 2013-09-09 14:10:14 UTC --- I completely understand your point of view. What you propose is one of the solutions I consider. Thanks for your explanations and for the good work. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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