Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 126358
pident user/group not created during install of package
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:45 EST
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
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.
will be replaced with authd, which doesn't need/use effective uid/gid as it uses the xinetd super server to set it