Bug 89867 - named user/group id's conflict with sendmail recommended ones for smmsp
Summary: named user/group id's conflict with sendmail recommended ones for smmsp
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: bind
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-29 02:09 UTC by Alex Man
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-05-01 12:48:25 UTC
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Description Alex Man 2003-04-29 02:09:07 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
sendmail-8.12.x recommends creating the smmsp user and group with uid and gid 
25 (obviously because it matches the well-known smtp port).
Redhat Linux has traditionally used 25 as the uid/gid for named.
Maybe it should set to it 53 instead, so that smmsp can use the recommended 
uid/gid 25 ?
I think it's a great idea to use the well known port for the user of basic 
services like mail, DNS, http, ftp since it avoids such conflicts and will help 
with consistency across different systems.

Alex

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
install bind and sendmail


Additional info:
Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2003-05-01 12:48:25 UTC 
This is considered to large of a upgrade problem.  It will not be done.
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