Bug 534110

Summary:	Please allocate a fixed UID and GID for vhostmd (daemon)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.5	CC:	ovasik, pknirsch
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2009-11-10 15:47:09 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #534109 +++

vhostmd (review bug 517488, spec [1]) requires a user and group
called 'vhostmd'.  I would like to request a fixed UID and GID
for these.

[1] http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/vhostmd/vhostmd.spec?view=markup

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-11-10 15:48:09 UTC

Oops, should be RHEL 5.5.

This is to support vhostmd which is going out in the
RHEL for SAP RHN channel (bug 514579).

Comment 3 Ondrej Vasik 2010-01-21 15:59:20 UTC

Well - in Fedora uidgid pair reservation 112:112 was done. So I would suggest to add check if that uid/gid on the particular RHEL-5 system is free at install time - and then you could safely use it (vast majority of the cases) - otherwise you have to use dynamic way. This approach would be safe enough and will be better for migration between RHEL-5 and RHEL-6. Can't reserve that in RHEL-5 - so closing this bugzilla DEFERRED.