Reg. Best Practices for User ids

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon May 13 12:38:57 UTC 2013


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On 05/13/2013 06:40 AM, Ramkumar Raghavan wrote:
> Hi,
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> Please let me know how the selinux operations varies with user id’s
> greater than 500 and those with uid’s less than 500.
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> We are planning to configure uid’s for application users for our custom 
> applications. What is the best practice to make these applications secure.
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> Thanks
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> Ramkumar Raghavan
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Nothing.  genhomedircon is just trying to figure out what are real user
accounts versus system accounts, and then setting up initial labelling on the
homedirs.

SELinux really does not know anything about UID. Nor does it care.  SELinux is
a labeling system, and only cares about labels.
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