User changes UID on restart

[sdgenxr]

I've installed transmission via the community plugin and notice that every time that I restart the jail, the user "transmission" has the UID changed to something different and causes my permissions to break. Any thoughts as to what might be going on here?

 

[sretalla]

Have you created the transmission user in the CLI on the host?

If that's the one that "changes", then maybe it's because users added at CLI are removed on reboot.

Create the user in the GUI.

 

[sdgenxr]

The Transmission user was created inside the jail using the shell.

 

[sretalla]

Are you attempting with those 2 pictures to illustrate the change of the UID within the jail?

 

[Samuel Tai]

Perhaps you're misreading the PID (process ID) for the UID? It's not expected to have the PID the same on every launch of Transmission. To verify the UID, you'll need to look at the 3rd field in the line in /etc/passwd corresponding to the Transmission user.