Local system user accounts deleted after Mavericks update

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Local system user accounts deleted after Mavericks update

Just a note to anyone that might have seen this after upgrading to OSX Server 3 and Mavericks...

I had JIRA and Confluence running on my Mac Mini (10.8). They were running as daemon processes under local system accounts that I created using the dscl utility. After the upgrade neither applications would start. It appeared that both system accounts no longer existed. Oddly, the group to which they both belonged was not removed. I was able to re-create the accounts with dscl and got both applications up and running again.

So if you find any daemons no longer run after the upgrade, check to see if the accounts they are set to run as still exist!

Mac mini, OS X Server, Mavericks 10.9

Posted on Nov 5, 2013 3:24 PM

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Bozz_IT

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Dec 7, 2013 1:35 AM in response to Paul Verity

I Beleive I have the same issue, but with starting VMWare Fusion Headless with NOGUI, from launchd.

After a reboot console reports:

com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.vmware.headlessvm[64]) getpwnam("localusername") failed

localusername is the user I use to sign on to my mac, and I can even ssh to the mac using that username, once its up booted up.

So I'm a bit confused.

I have to recreate the user? How? What commands?

This used to work just fine before Mavericks Upgrade.

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on the subject.

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CCSchool

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Dec 7, 2013 5:16 PM in response to Paul Verity

I noticed when I upgraded to server 3.0, I turned off all of my services (opendir, filehsharing, etc) so basically it would just upgrade the software and i could turn it all back on. For some reason, it upgraded the software, but totally wiped my OD. Not sure if this is helpful, but I thought it was interesting.

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Paul Verity Author

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Jan 22, 2014 1:01 AM in response to Bozz_IT

Hi,

Sorry this is a bit late in the day, but I documented the commands to recreate the user account here: https://server.v-home.co.uk/confluence/x/GQEg

See the yellow 'notice' box at the top of the page. Hope that helps.

Paul

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