Bug 706012 - Reserve UID/GID for Retrace server
Summary: Reserve UID/GID for Retrace server
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: setup
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-19 07:30 UTC by Michal Toman
Modified: 2015-03-23 00:41 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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The retrace-server package creates a user ID (UID) pair and a group ID (GID) pair, both with the name "retrace" and number "174". This user and group is used by the Automated Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) retracing server. Prior to this update, the aforementioned UID/GID pairs were not reserved by the setup package so that other packages or system administrators could have accidentally assigned those values to other users and groups. With this update, the setup package now reserves these UID and GID names and numbers so that accidental conflicts with other users and groups do not happen anymore.
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Last Closed: 2011-08-18 06:44:22 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:1171 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE setup bug fix and enhancement update 2011-08-18 06:44:15 UTC

Description Michal Toman 2011-05-19 07:30:16 UTC 
As Retrace server becomes a separate package, it can no longer use "abrt" user, that's why it needs to reserve its own UID and GID.

name: retrace
home: /usr/share/retrace-server
shell: /sbin/nologin
created by: retrace-server
Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2011-05-20 09:34:11 UTC 
fyi: 
retrace	174	174	/usr/share/retrace-server	/sbin/nologin	retrace-server

reserved in setup-2.8.33 in Fedora Rawhide. Will use the same reservation number in RHEL-6, once setup approved for RHEL-6 update.
Comment 7 Petr Kovar 2011-08-03 10:24:18 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
The retrace-server package creates a user ID (UID) pair and a group ID (GID) pair, both with the name "retrace" and number "174". This user and group is used by the Automated Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) retracing server. Prior to this update, the aforementioned UID/GID pairs were not reserved by the setup package so that other packages or system administrators could have accidentally assigned those values to other users and groups. With this update, the setup package now reserves these UID and GID names and numbers so that accidental conflicts with other users and groups do not happen anymore.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-18 06:44:22 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1171.html
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