Fedora Users vs. Amahi Users

[LittleMike]

I tried searching for this but couldn't find it anywhere in the forums. I'm pretty much Linux illiterate, so please bear with me.

I just finished setting up Amahi and one thing that I noticed is that during the Amahi install, it asks to create a user. Thinking this was purely for web access/the Amahi platform, I created a username identical to the one I created when I installed Fedora. This is the root of my question.

In Fedora, I now have 2 users with the same name. One is capitalized - that is the one I created during the Fedora install. The other one is all lowercase - that's the duplicate I created during the Amahi install.

In Amahi under Settings->Users. There is only the "Amahi" username.

Now my question is, how do I resolve this so that there is only one user properly tied to the proper shares?

Not only is the current setup convoluted because I now have 2 of the "same" username in Fedora, but I also am missing the "proper" username within Amahi.

Overall I'm enjoying Amahi coming over from WHS, but there are definitely a few sticking points.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

[LittleMike]

13 views and no responses yet? Well I think I discovered something if it helps:

I was going through the FAQ regarding first time set up and saw a mention about making sure that the user you create just after the Amahi install should match the user you created in Fedora and that it is case-sensitive. Now here's the kicker - I logged in as the user and then when it prompted me to change my password, it changed the capital letter to a lower-case one. That field cannot be edited. So basically it created a second Fedora user with the same name.

Now the question is, how do I fix that?

[sag47]

Have you started using Amahi configurations for storage and Apps? If not then I would say go into the Fedora user management and delete all of the users except for the one you want. Then reinstall Amahi with your install code from the terminal using this command:
hda-install -f [YOUR INSTALL CODE]

It is a general rule of thumb in Linux that the user names are always lower case. You're right that Linux is case sensitive and that a user named Sam is different from a user named sam. The same goes for file names.

Be aware that, in your Samba shares, you can create a file called john and John and they will be different files. However, Windows is case insensitive so it will see John and john as the same file.

Remember these points (as a general rule of thumb):

• When creating a user name in Linux or Amahi always make it lower case.
• Linux is case sensitive, Windows is not.
• Create unique files regardless of case so that Windows and Linux play nice together.

As far as the forum goes:

• It is run by volunteers (even Amahi development) so nobody gets paid.
• Views can come from bots, like Google crawler, and from people browsing the internet who aren't a part of the forum so don't count on that as a valid metric. Even if you refresh the page you're viewing the view counter goes up so the 13 views could even be from you.
• Expect a couple of days before a response since I am a user of Amahi (like you) and not necessarily affiliated with it, like most on this forum.

Post back any issues you encounter from these instructions. No worries, I understand what it's like being new to Linux. I was there and it has been a painful road of learning but I use it for all my computing now and love it.

SAM

[LittleMike]

Have you started using Amahi configurations for storage and Apps? If not then I would say go into the Fedora user management and delete all of the users except for the one you want. Then reinstall Amahi with your install code from the terminal using this command:
hda-install -f [YOUR INSTALL CODE]

It is a general rule of thumb in Linux that the user names are always lower case. You're right that Linux is case sensitive and that a user named Sam is different from a user named sam. The same goes for file names.

Be aware that, in your Samba shares, you can create a file called john and John and they will be different files. However, Windows is case insensitive so it will see John and john as the same file.

Remember these points (as a general rule of thumb):

• When creating a user name in Linux or Amahi always make it lower case.
• Linux is case sensitive, Windows is not.
• Create unique files regardless of case so that Windows and Linux play nice together.

As far as the forum goes:

• It is run by volunteers (even Amahi development) so nobody gets paid.
• Views can come from bots, like Google crawler, and from people browsing the internet who aren't a part of the forum so don't count on that as a valid metric. Even if you refresh the page you're viewing the view counter goes up so the 13 views could even be from you.
• Expect a couple of days before a response since I am a user of Amahi (like you) and not necessarily affiliated with it, like most on this forum.

Post back any issues you encounter from these instructions. No worries, I understand what it's like being new to Linux. I was there and it has been a painful road of learning but I use it for all my computing now and love it.

SAM

Hey Sam,

Thanks a bunch for the response! I haven't even added my storage drives yet, so I can easily re-install. I wanted to make sure I got everything stable enough to my liking before I moved any data over to it yet.

Great tips on the usernames. I had no idea standard convention is for all lowercase. I should have thought back to my old shell account I had back in '94.

Also, I had no idea the view count could be affected by Googlebots and non-members. I'm used to a lot of phpBoard based forums where the referrer is based on IP as well as a login cookie so it won't increment a view count if you hit refresh over and over and generally speaking, they aren't cached, so Google doesn't spider them. Now I feel bad I was impatient

Anyway, so I'm going to give a reinstall by CLI a shot. So as far as my initial Fedora user goes - I can delete it because it's a non-administrative account anyway, correct? If I understood you correctly, I think that's what you were saying.

Thanks again,
Mike

EDIT: Hmm this board IS phpBoard based. Odd. Well maybe it's just the way it's configured. Oh well. Point taken. I should have some more patience and not take the view count as written in stone

[LittleMike]

Okay, deleted the extra user, kept the one I wanted, ran hda-install and ran into a slight snag. It said that's deprecated and you are now to use the amahi-installer by going to http://localhost:2000. Not a problem, Control-Shift clicked it, ran the installer with my existing install code, rebooted, logged in. It asked me to recreate my password as normal and when I was done, I only had the one (same as Fedora) user. Awesome stuff! Thanks for the assistance!

[sag47]

Glad it worked for you. And you don't have to feel bad, I wasn't scolding you. I was just letting you know in case you didn't realize.

SAM

[LittleMike]

Glad it worked for you. And you don't have to feel bad, I wasn't scolding you. I was just letting you know in case you didn't realize.

SAM

You are correct, I did not. But now I do, so that's good