jitsi-meet

Meilix is known for its customisation feature. There is a folder meilix-default-settings with the help of which we can overwrite system configuration. Problem: Meilix has a login issue so it happened that uid assigned to hotelos is 999 whereas the login manager accept uid 1000. We tried to change the uid using system configuration but it doesn’t get change. Solution: We thought of different approach to overwrite the uid file with uid of hotelos 1000. The default file can be found at etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/usr/sbin/nologin lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/usr/sbin/nologin news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/usr/sbin/nologin uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/usr/sbin/nologin proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/usr/sbin/nologin list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/usr/sbin/nologin irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/usr/sbin/nologin gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/usr/sbin/nologin nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin systemd-timesync:x:100:102:systemd Time Synchronization,,,:/run/systemd:/bin/false systemd-network:x:101:103:systemd Network Management,,,:/run/systemd/netif:/bin/false systemd-resolve:x:102:104:systemd Resolver,,,:/run/systemd/resolve:/bin/false systemd-bus-proxy:x:103:105:systemd Bus Proxy,,,:/run/systemd:/bin/false syslog:x:104:108::/home/syslog:/bin/false _apt:x:105:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false messagebus:x:106:110::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false uuidd:x:107:111::/run/uuidd:/bin/false sddm:x:108:114:Simple Desktop Display Manager:/var/lib/sddm:/bin/false lightdm:x:109:115:Light Display Manager:/var/lib/lightdm:/bin/false avahi:x:110:117:Avahi mDNS daemon,,,:/var/run/avahi-daemon:/bin/false colord:x:111:120:colord colour management daemon,,,:/var/lib/colord:/bin/false dnsmasq:x:112:65534:dnsmasq,,,:/var/lib/misc:/bin/false pulse:x:113:121:PulseAudio daemon,,,:/var/run/pulse:/bin/false rtkit:x:114:123:RealtimeKit,,,:/proc:/bin/false usbmux:x:115:46:usbmux daemon,,,:/var/lib/usbmux:/bin/false jvb:x:999:1000::/usr/share/jitsi-videobridge:/bin/bash jicofo:x:998:1000::/usr/share/jicofo:/bin/bash prosody:x:116:125:Prosody XMPP Server,,,:/var/lib/prosody:/bin/false hotelos:x:1000:1001:hotelos,,,:/home/tarun:/bin/bash   Through this we can see that the root get the uid 0 and the user get uid 1000. This approach made the uid 1000 but the OS doesn’t bypass the login issue because we found that jitsi-meet installer caused the issue. It creates two user, one is jwb and other is jicofu. Due to this reason our etc/passwd is also not working as it conflicts the existing user. This line present in scripts/chroot.sh install the jitsi-meet. wget -qO - https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | apt-key add - This line add the entry into the source.list.d file for the jitsi-meet sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.jitsi.org stable/' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list" Finally this line install jitsi-meet. apt-get -y install jitsi-meet We need to remove all these lines for removing jitsi-meet to get the meilix-default-settings work again. Reference: Jitsi-meet Uid