[SOLVED] User not showing up in users list

[reano]

Hi there,
During Zentyal 3.0's installation, I had to create a username and password for the Zentyal administration user. This user account was also created on the Linux system itself, as it has a home directory etc, and I can login with it.
However, when I go to the user list under Zentyal Administration, it doesn't appear there?

[robb]

The userlist in Zentyal Administratioon webgui are LDAP useraccounts. The account you created when you installed Zentyal is a local useraccount.

[reano]

Ahh I see - stupid question: is there a way to "convert" a local user account to an LDAP account? Because I have a local user account now, let's call it "xyz", but I need to have the LDAP user account "xyz" as well in order for the mail directory etc to work as intended.

[robb]

Delete the local user, enable PAM and recreate the user in Users webgui. With PAM enabled, you can use local services with the account.

[reano]

Ah thanks - if I delete the local user, though, won't Zentyal's web administration have an issue with that, as that is the user that I log in with on the web admin?

[reano]

I don't usually bump posts, but this issue is a bit urgent - anyone have an idea how to get around the fact that Zentyal 3 web admin is accessed with the local user account that I now have to delete?

[christian]

It looks like your request is a bit more complex, if I read it correctly.
Your goal is not only to "delete" Zentyal admin account in order create same account as Zentyal user but, I suppose, you expect this account still to be Zentyal admin isn't it?

If no, then just create new Zentyal admin account, delete this one and create Zentyal user. I don't see where problem is 
Am I wrong with may guess?

[reano]

Well, the problem is that I can't manage to create another Zentyal admin account. At all. I created a user called zentyaladmin, added it to the sudo group (there is no admin group on this version of Ubuntu) as well as the root group - but I can't log into the Zentyal web interface with it at all - it keeps on telling me "incorrect password".

[christian]

I don't know the very detail of this. It would require some reverse engineering 
However, you should look at these groups:
adm, sudo, ldapadmin

I don't think root group is required. 

[robb]

I have seen the same problem as reano is describing: when you create a local user that previously existed on LDAP, and you add the sudo, adm and ldapadmin groups, when you try to login the web interface, you get 'incorrect password'

Is this because only 1 user can be used as administrator on the community version? What would cause other users can't be added as admin account? (can 1 of the devs answer this?)

[christian]

Correct, I forgot it. We even have discussed this together.
I though reano was also deleting the previous admin to add it as "Zentyal user"... but didn't kept in mind this difference between community and other versions.

[reano]

Ah seems it's limited to one local user. Either way, my workaround was to create a separate local user to access Zentyal and delete the original one, which I set up as LDAP. Thanks guys

[christian]

If issue is solved, please modify first post title and stamp it as [SOLVED]