Adding Users and Groups

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:

1. Select the appliance template you want to modify.

2. From the Stack page, click on Install Profile in the toolbox.

3. Select Users and Groups.

4. Click the plus symbol next to the Users table. The Create User page will be displayed.

   

5. Enter a user name.

6. If you want to manually enter the user ID, deselect set the user id automatically and enter the ID number.

7. 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.

8. 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:

1. Select the appliance template you want to modify.

2. From the Stack page, click on Install Profile in the toolbox.

3. Select Users and Groups.

4. Click the plus symbol next to the Groups table. The Create Group page will be displayed.

   

5. Enter a group name.

6. Check if you want this group to be a system group.

7. If you want to manually enter the group ID, deselect Set the group id automatically and enter the group ID number.

8. Click create.