You can add operating system users and groups to a Linux-based appliance Install Profile. These will be integrated to the appliance template.
Warning
The users and groups created in UForge are not linked. If you create a user and list it as part of a specific group, you must then also create the group; otherwise the image generation will fail.
To add a user to an appliance:
- Select the appliance template you want to modify.
- From the
Stack
page, click onInstall Profile
in the toolbox.- Select
Users and Groups
.Click the plus symbol next to the
Users
table. TheCreate User
page will be displayed.- Enter a user name.
- If you want to manually enter the user ID, deselect
set the user id automatically
and enter the ID number.- If you want to manually create the primary group the user is part of, deselect
automatically create primary group for user
and enter the group name.- Click
create
.
Warning
If you create a user and list it as part of a specific group, you must then also create the group; otherwise the image generation will fail.
To add a group to a Linux-based appliance install profile:
- Select the appliance template you want to modify.
- From the
Stack
page, click onInstall Profile
in the toolbox.- Select
Users and Groups
.Click the plus symbol next to the
Groups
table. TheCreate Group
page will be displayed.- Enter a group name.
- Check if you want this group to be a system group.
- If you want to manually enter the group ID, deselect
Set the group id automatically
and enter the group ID number.- Click
create
.