Bug 12427 – portmap runs as user "bin"

Bug 12427 - portmap runs as user "bin"

Summary:	portmap runs as user "bin"

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	portmap (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
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Reported:	2000-06-18 14:49 EDT by Matthew Kirkwood
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-08-03 10:20:47 EDT
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Description Matthew Kirkwood 2000-06-18 14:49:23 EDT

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 00:49:57 EDT

Confirmed as still valid in beta3

Comment 2 Glen Foster 2000-07-18 14:47:08 EDT

This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Beta-5

Comment 3 Glen Foster 2000-07-21 14:05:47 EDT

This defect has been re-classified as MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release

Comment 4 Henri Schlereth 2000-08-01 23:13:38 EDT

Still valid in beta5

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