System Accounts

[Charles R. Anderson]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:29:48AM +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> I have just noticed that several RPMs attempt to create system accounts
> with hardcoded user and group ids. This may cause account creation to
> fail when that id is already in use so files and directories may end up
> with the wrong owner/group and daemon processes may either impersonate
> the wrong user or fail to change their uid/gid.

Those uids shouldn't be on the system beforehand.  They should only be
created according to the registry.

> Is there a registry for these system accounts yet?

Yes, /usr/share/doc/setup-*/uidgid