I am attempting to create a home directory for an existing user and give them terminal permissions, but I can not save the updates via the WebUI. The save button is disabled. Can anyone help me figure out why this is the case?
Typically that would mean something is incomplete or misconfigured. What do the first two sections of the Edit User form look like?
Have you set a password on the account? That appears mandatory (on CORE) unless you disable password.
There is a password set (at least for SMB) but even if I wanted to change/set it it wouldn’t let me because the Save button sees to stay disabled no matter what.
Could it be because this user was created as an SMB user?
Just going to the top of you post… What is your trying to accomplsih? Just SMB or other interactive login?
- You mention home directory, yet the path is empty. Where is the intended home directory?
- The shell is set to nologin. Is this intentional? I prefer to set bash but that’s me.
Let me know the use case better… 
Im trying to create a user to dedicate to an rsync task between TrueNAS and another machine. I can’t set up an rsync task without the user having an ssh key in their home directory. I’m trying to set that up for that “link” user that you see above, yet I can’t edit the user to set their home directory to anything.
I’ve been playing around with this a bit and it appears that the issue has to do with the username being link, which is not to my knowledge explicitly reserved/disabled but may be causing some conflicts. Before going further, can you please generate a debug file from the system and submit it along with a bug report (Report a Bug link if you scroll to the top of this page)? That way we can investigate further.
After you’ve done that, try renaming the user to something other than link and the Save button should be enabled again.
Yup that seems to be the case. As soon as I start changing the username, it allows me to save. Thank you!
For anyone following along, this is a UI issue and there will be a fix for it in 24.10.0.
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