IoT Edge 1.4 install fails if system has users with UID 13622 / 13623 about iotedge HOT 7 CLOSED

User add error was not related to the chown error.

I had to sudo apt-get autoremove --purge aziot-edge several time, and reboot, and I'm not exactly sure what else.
But traces of a previous install caused the chown error.

Then I did
sudo apt install -y aziot-identity-service
which worked
then I did
sudo apt install -y aziot-edge which "worked" even tho the user add still had a conflict

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Is there any documentation on manually adding edgeagentuser to the system?

I assume I will need to manually create 2 users.

useradd -r -g iotedge -c "edgeAgent user" -s /sbin/nologin edgeagentuser
useradd -r -c "edgeHub user" -s /sbin/nologin edgehubuser

But then how do I use those userIds?
I saw something about the EDGEAGENTUSER_ID env var, but not exactly sure what process needs to know this uid.

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I believe being able to set the EDGEAGENTUSER_ID env var was added as backwards compatibility with previous iotedge versions. You should be able to add it in your deployment manifest in the env section: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-edge/module-edgeagent-edgehub?view=iotedge-1.4#edgeagent-desired-properties

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@MattCosturos Can you give it a try with the deployment manifest change per Bilal above?

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@MattCosturos any updates?

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I might be missing it, I don't see any mention of EDGEAGENTUSER_ID in that linked article.

I will go ahead and add an env var called EDGEAGENTUSER_ID to the creation options and test that today and report back

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Yes. setting the env vars EDGEAGENTUSER_ID AND EDGEHUBUSER_ID in a deployment manifests allows one to specify which user Id should be used for the modules.

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