[Fedora-packaging] fedora-usermgmt

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:23:57 +0100, OV (Ondrej) wrote:

> > > The file /etc/fedora/usermgmt/baseuid contains 300, so I'm guessing
> > > the correct setup for Bacula would be to set 333 as the uid/gid. Is
> > > that correct?
> > 
> > You would first need to have uid 333 registered/reserveed as a fixed uid.
> 
> I don't think that this is a good idea - you either should have static
> ID (network/virtual machines facing, storing sensitive data) or dynamic
> system user creation should be ok for you.

But it has been reserved already.

$ grep -i bacu  /usr/share/doc/setup-2.8.36/uidgid
bacula	133	133	/var/spool/bacula		/sbin/nologin	bacula

* Tue Jan 12 2010 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik redhat com> 2.8.14-1
- reserve uidgid pair 133:133 for bacula(#554705)

That ticket cannot be displayed, unfortunately, so I can't learn about
the details why 133 has been chosen.