CPanel create accounts with wrong GroupID:UserID

I have box for a while and asked datacenter to install CPanel on it.

After installation I realized that newly created accounts have wrong GroupID:UserID.
They can be found in the /etc/passwd, /etc/group

On my other box Cpanel accounts started from 32000 ID.
But on this box they started just right from 500.

Also when new account created I have record in /etc/passwd with GroupID and UserID+1, i.e. for accounts ac1, ac2, ac3 I have records:

That way I have all quota on my box mixed between different acounts and experienced much problems.

So my question - how to make Cpanel start creating account from 32000 ?

I tried manually update last records from /etc/passwd, /etc/group but it seems Cpanel does not take data from these files for creating new accounts.

Please help me!..

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number: 109

 

Thank you very much!

It helps but not in 100%.

/etc/login.defs - does not affect account creation.

When I set UID to 32000 within the WHM it creates entries like this:

so - where can I change minimum group ID?

 

yes, I think better to not change this

It seems I find the solution:
Under the /etc I modified passwd and group files to relate to each other.
Then I recreate each account.

I have no much accounts so will do it quickly.

I even do not want think about if this happen to any other my production box with hundreds of client

 

I fixed this manually.
You need to modify /etc/group and /etc/passwd.
You can also modify /etc/shadow but it is not very important.

Modify them carefully (take backup), make each user have own groupID and userID (I used Excel for separate and merge data - VERY helpfull, VERY).
Then create new account and see what info added - if /etc/passwd and /etc/group contain equal data for IDs then your modification is correct (sometimes it can use old ID's - so I keep creating accounts to make sure all new ID's are syncronized).
If not - then you can use just added UserID and GroupID to determine where the problem is and fix it again.

Once this is done you need to manually chmod /home/ACCOUNT files for each affected account and then run /scripts/fixquotas - otherwise your users will have a problem with they sites and quotas.
Be carefull with chmod'ing - it is not easy to chmod user's home dir (use existing and with correct settings user account for example of chmoding the affected accounts).

I performed all of this and seems my clients now are happy.
Most important - I'm happy


Too bad that this happen on different our servers and there were too much accounts to modify by hand.
I think it's happen because cPanel does not lock all the necessary files during account creating.
Seems we definitely need a scripts for this.

 

I did no such changes.
All existing, affected and new accounts works fine for a several months.
So it seems described by me changes are fully enough.