System Accounts
Charles R. Anderson
cra at WPI.EDU
Mon Oct 25 02:41:08 UTC 2004
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
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