Bug 772745

Summary:	wallaby user request
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Robert Rati <rrati>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Version:	5.8	CC:	rrati, willb
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Description Robert Rati 2012-01-09 20:59:34 UTC

Description of problem:
I need a user and group created for a package called wallaby.  The user and the group should both be "wallaby", and the user should have a home directory of /var/lib/wallaby.  These are used to own the wallaby service and data files.  The wallaby package currently creates the group/account with:

%pre
getent group wallaby >/dev/null || groupadd -r wallaby
getent passwd wallaby >/dev/null || \
  useradd -r -g wallaby -d %{_localstatedir}/lib/wallaby -s /sbin/nologin \
    -c "Owner of Wallaby service" wallaby
exit 0

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Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2012-01-09 21:05:05 UTC

Unfortunately, for RHEL-5 that's not possible. We don't have free uidgid pairs which could be reserved there. Closing it WONTFIX in RHEL-5.

If you want it in RHEL-6, feel free to reopen it there. Just to make things more clear - it is perfectly fine to have dynamically allocated uid/gid for system user account, if the system account is not network facing and if is not handling/storing any sensitive data.