[BUG] USER_NAME cannot be set to an user that already exists in /etc/passwd

[zaubara]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

sshd won't start up after the first restart, due to the changes in #97

Expected Behavior

Start.

Steps To Reproduce

Have an empty/non-existent config folder, start it up once, and then restart it for the first time.

Environment

No response

CPU architecture

arm64

Docker creation

services:
  autossh:
    image: linuxserver/openssh-server:latest
    container_name: autossh
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 22222:2222
      - 8123:8123
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=1001
      - TZ=Europe/Vienna
      - USER_NAME=randomusername # here's the culprit
      - PASSWORD_ACCESS=false
      - SUDO_ACCESS=false
      - PUBLIC_KEY_FILE=/authorized_keys
    volumes:
      - ./openssh_config:/config
      - ./authorized_keys:/authorized_keys:ro

Container logs

sshd is listening on port 2222
User/password ssh access is disabled.
Public key from file added
[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
[ls.io-init] done.
[migrations] started
[migrations] no migrations found
*** USER_NAME cannot be set to an user that already exists in /etc/passwd. Halting init. ***
[migrations] started
[migrations] no migrations found
*** USER_NAME cannot be set to an user that already exists in /etc/passwd. Halting init. ***

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[thespad]

I can't replicate this, what's the actual username you're using?

autossh  | [migrations] started
autossh  | [migrations] no migrations found
autossh  | ───────────────────────────────────────
autossh  | 
autossh  |       ██╗     ███████╗██╗ ██████╗
autossh  |       ██║     ██╔════╝██║██╔═══██╗
autossh  |       ██║     ███████╗██║██║   ██║
autossh  |       ██║     ╚════██║██║██║   ██║
autossh  |       ███████╗███████║██║╚██████╔╝
autossh  |       ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═════╝
autossh  | 
autossh  |    Brought to you by linuxserver.io
autossh  | ───────────────────────────────────────
autossh  | 
autossh  | To support LSIO projects visit:
autossh  | https://www.linuxserver.io/donate/
autossh  | 
autossh  | ───────────────────────────────────────
autossh  | GID/UID
autossh  | ───────────────────────────────────────
autossh  | 
autossh  | User UID:    1001
autossh  | User GID:    1001
autossh  | ───────────────────────────────────────
autossh  | Linuxserver.io version: 9.7_p1-r4-ls176
autossh  | Build-date: 2024-11-26T21:01:46+00:00
autossh  | ───────────────────────────────────────
autossh  |     
autossh  | User name is set to randomusername
autossh  | sudo is disabled.
autossh  | ssh-keygen: generating new host keys: RSA ECDSA ED25519 
autossh  | SSH host public key(s):

[zaubara]

"homeassistant", which doesn't seem relevant.
I dont think you started the container a second time, or you'd have another "migrations - started" line at the bottom:

docker logs autossh
[migrations] started
[migrations] no migrations found
───────────────────────────────────────

      ██╗     ███████╗██╗ ██████╗
      ██║     ██╔════╝██║██╔═══██╗
      ██║     ███████╗██║██║   ██║
      ██║     ╚════██║██║██║   ██║
      ███████╗███████║██║╚██████╔╝
      ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═════╝

   Brought to you by linuxserver.io
───────────────────────────────────────

To support LSIO projects visit:
https://www.linuxserver.io/donate/

───────────────────────────────────────
GID/UID
───────────────────────────────────────

User UID:    1001
User GID:    1001
───────────────────────────────────────
Linuxserver.io version: 9.7_p1-r4-ls176
Build-date: 2024-11-26T21:01:46+00:00
───────────────────────────────────────
    
User name is set to homeassistant
sudo is disabled.
ssh-keygen: generating new host keys: RSA ECDSA ED25519 
SSH host public key(s):
ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 ...
ssh-ed25519 ...
ssh-rsa ....
sshd is listening on port 2222
User/password ssh access is disabled.
Public key from file added
[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
[ls.io-init] done.
---> here's where i did a restart of the container <---
[migrations] started
[migrations] no migrations found
*** USER_NAME cannot be set to an user that already exists in /etc/passwd. Halting init. ***

[thespad]

Oh, sorry, didn't notice the restart, yeah I need to fix that. I'll sort out a PR for it later today.