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This bug is for creation of the ovirt user account on oVirt Node images. +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #749154 +++ Description of problem: As a part of ovirt-engine development, we need a specific user and group in Fedora in order to setup the ovirt-engine agent properly. Expected results: 1. user / group name: ovirt / ovirt 2. home directory: /home/ovirt
(In reply to comment #0) > This bug is for creation of the ovirt user account on oVirt Node images. What would that account be used for on node, we don't run ovirt-engine?
I thought that by ovirt-engine agent they meant the agent that would run on the Nodes. (i.e. vdsm) Besides, we need to get rid of 'root' user usage on oVirt Node anyhow, so a user name like 'ovirt' would make sense for that.
ovirt user and group id is already reserved in setup because of #513261 (by package libvirt ... but I don't see that user used there. Probably they decided to use only vdsm user...) Anyway - the id for ovirt user/group 108:108 is reserved, so if you use it safely (e.g. getent group ovirt > /dev/null || /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 108 -r ovirt getent passwd ovirt > /dev/null || /usr/sbin/useradd -r -u 108 -g ovirt \ -c "ovirt user" -d / -s /sbin/nologin ovirt ) then I see no problem. (the ovirt id 108:108 is reserved even in RHEL-6).
ovirt-node doesn't specifically use the ovirt user, so I don't think there is a need for additional changes here. Ayal, Is vdsm going to switch to using an ovirt user? And if so, is the vdsm rpm going to handle creating it if it doesn't exist? Or do you expect it to already be there?
(In reply to comment #4) > ovirt-node doesn't specifically use the ovirt user, so I don't think there is a > need for additional changes here. > > Ayal, > > Is vdsm going to switch to using an ovirt user? And if so, is the vdsm rpm > going to handle creating it if it doesn't exist? Or do you expect it to already > be there? vdsm today and in current plans for future uses only user vdsm:kvm (36:36)
Closing as this does not apply to ovirt-node