Bug 709599 - RHEV-Agent User and Group ID reservation request
Summary: RHEV-Agent User and Group ID reservation request
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: setup
Version: 6.0
Hardware: Unspecified
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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Blocks: 632959
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Reported: 2011-06-01 07:18 UTC by Gal Hammer
Modified: 2011-08-18 06:44 UTC (History)
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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.
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Last Closed: 2011-08-18 06:44:25 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 Gal Hammer 2011-06-01 07:18:32 UTC 
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
Comment 9 Petr Kovar 2011-08-03 10:24:38 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.
    
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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.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-18 06:44:25 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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