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The RHEV-Agent is a daemon which run inside the guest. It provide information and preform actions that can't easily be achieved from outside the guest's operating system.

A recent change was to stop runing the agent with a root user. This requires a reservation of a uid for the user which the agent is running as.

Username/group: rhevagent
Shell: /sbin/nologin
Home dir: /
Package which create the user/group: rhev-agent

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The rhev-agent package creates a user ID (UID) pair and a group ID (GID) pair, both with the name "rhevagent" and number "175". This user and group is used by RHEV-Agent. 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.

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