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boredazfcuk / docker-icloudpd

An Alpine Linux container for the iCloud Photos Downloader command line utility
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"User name, user, already in use - exiting" error in log #433

Closed jmaliakal closed 6 months ago

jmaliakal commented 7 months ago

I was running into the error "User name, user, already in use - exiting" after I configured my user_id to the user id for the username on my synology NAS (using the same user id value shown when running the id bash command - 1026)

I'm using the default user value of user, as I didn't see a line for this in the icloudpd.conf file created at the initial container startup.

After returning the user_id value to 1000 and chmoding the permissions of my download folder to 777, it seems to be working and downloading photos from icloud; however, I feel like this isn't the correct way to do things.

Do I need to change the config of the container to user the correct user account and user id? If so, how can I do this?

boredazfcuk commented 7 months ago

The container creates the user account when it first launches.

If you leave it as default, it will create the user user with the user id 1000.

The next time it launches, it will see that the user account user:1000 already exists and skip user account creation.

If you then change the settings to user=user and user_id=1026 the container will not find the user account user:1026 and attempt to create it. This is where your problem lies, the account user already exists with id 1000 so a second account named user cannot be created.

If you want to force the container to user:1026, just delete the container and re-create it. It will then create the user:1026 account on first run.

boredazfcuk commented 6 months ago

Closing as no response in over a month.