Bug 12427

Summary: portmap runs as user "bin"
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew>
Component: portmapAssignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Version: 7.1Keywords: Security
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Description Matthew Kirkwood 2000-06-18 18:49:23 UTC 
In theory this should be fine.  In practice though, a lot of third party
software (and an embarrasing number of official RPMs - cf. #12423, #12424,
#12426) installs binaries owned by "bin".

If a dedicated uid is deemed excessive, perhaps a generic "rpc" account,
which could be used by other things like rpc.statd.
Comment 1 Henri Schlereth 2000-07-14 04:49:57 UTC 
Confirmed as still valid in beta3
Comment 2 Glen Foster 2000-07-18 18:47:08 UTC 
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Beta-5
Comment 3 Glen Foster 2000-07-21 18:05:47 UTC 
This defect has been re-classified as MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release
Comment 4 Henri Schlereth 2000-08-02 03:13:38 UTC 
Still valid in beta5