Bug 534110 - Please allocate a fixed UID and GID for vhostmd (daemon)
Summary: Please allocate a fixed UID and GID for vhostmd (daemon)
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: setup
Version: 5.5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Depends On: 534109
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-10 15:47 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2010-01-21 15:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 534109
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Last Closed: 2010-01-21 15:59:20 UTC
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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.
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