Bug 126358

Summary:	pident user/group not created during install of package
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Hall <chall5>
Component:	pidentd	Assignee:	Eido Inoue <havill>
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Description Chris Hall 2004-06-20 03:38:16 UTC

Description of problem:

pident.conf file indicates user/group to run as as 'ident', however,
these are never created at package install.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.0.16-4

How reproducible: always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install pidentd-3.0.16-4
2. start identd
  
Actual results:

'ident' user and 'ident' group not created during install

Expected results:

expect install to create 'ident' user and 'ident' group as these are
specified in the identd.conf file.

Additional info:

from /var/log/messages
Jun 19 22:53:02 core identd[28595]: /etc/identd.conf: 9: invalid user:
ident
Jun 19 22:53:02 core identd[28595]: /etc/identd.conf: 12: invalid
group: ident
Jun 19 22:53:02 core identd: identd startup succeeded

Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2004-06-21 16:03:40 UTC

ident id/group are only necessary if you use the -E (encryption)
option, as pidentd can glean the info on it's own-- and ideally,
pidentd should be launched from xinetd (as user nobody) rather than as
a standalone daemon, so the plan will be to comment out the effective
uid/gid settings and change pidentd over to be a slave of the inetd
super-daemon.

Comment 2 Eido Inoue 2004-06-21 17:04:35 UTC

will be replaced with authd, which doesn't need/use effective uid/gid
as it uses the xinetd super server to set it