Bug 715266 - request static userid/groupid allocation for apache traffic server
Summary: request static userid/groupid allocation for apache traffic server
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: setup
Version: 6.3
Hardware: Unspecified
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: 2011-06-22 11:45 UTC by Jan-Frode Myklebust
Modified: 2011-08-18 06:44 UTC (History)
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The trafficserver package creates a user ID (UID) pair and a group ID (GID) pair, both with the name "ats" and number "176". This user and group is used for the configuration management functions over a cluster of nodes. 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 06:44:28 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 Jan-Frode Myklebust 2011-06-22 11:45:32 UTC 
The Apache Traffic Server (ATS) includes configuration management functions over a cluster of nodes, and needs to have the same uid/gid number on all nodes. We're in the process of packaging ATS for Fedora and EPEL (#683463), and would like to have a number that woun't conflict with other packages.

Username:   ats
Grooupname: ats
UID:        175   (or whatever is available next)
GID:        175   (or whatever is available next)
homedir:    /
shell:      /sbin/nologin
package:    trafficserver
Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2011-06-22 12:38:35 UTC 
175 is taken by rhevagent, so probably 176:176, but will confirm the exact registred uidgid pair once built in Fedora Rawhide.
Comment 3 Jan-Frode Myklebust 2011-06-22 20:24:41 UTC 
Great, thanks!

Will await your final numbers before we finalize the trafficserver package.
Comment 5 Ondrej Vasik 2011-06-29 14:59:25 UTC 
Reserved 176:176 uidgid pair in Fedora Rawhide - setup-2.8.35-1.fc16.
Comment 10 Petr Kovar 2011-08-03 10:25:17 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 trafficserver package creates a user ID (UID) pair and a group ID (GID) pair, both with the name "ats" and number "176". This user and group is used for the configuration management functions over a cluster of nodes. 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 11 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-18 06:44:28 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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