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Bug 1383970

Summary:	Need mention of 'abrt' user as requirement for abrtd
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Piyush Bhoot <pbhoot>
Component:	doc-System_Administrators_Guide	Assignee:	Marie Hornickova <mdolezel>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Maxim Svistunov <msvistun>
Priority:	high
Version:	7.3	CC:	ecs-bugs, pbhoot, rhel-docs
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Clone Of:	1383969	Environment:
Last Closed:	2017-01-09 16:31:40 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1383969
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Description Piyush Bhoot 2016-10-12 09:28:41 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1383969 +++

Document URL: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-abrt.html

Describe the issue: 

abrtd requires the presence of an 'abrt' user

Suggestions for improvement: 

The abrtd daemon requires the abrt user to exist for file system operations in /var/spool/abrt

When the abrt rpm is installed, it creates a user with UID/GID of 173 if that user doesn't already exit from a previous account creation such as from a corporate ID management solution or manually.

Because the abrt does not require a specific UID/GID, the user can be created with the UID/GID of choice.