System Accounts

[Thomas Zehetbauer]

I have just noticed that several RPMs attempt to create system accounts
with hardcoded user and group ids. This may cause account creation to
fail when that id is already in use so files and directories may end up
with the wrong owner/group and daemon processes may either impersonate
the wrong user or fail to change their uid/gid.

Is there a registry for these system accounts yet?

I would recommend at least a warning in the adduser manpage that using
the -r switch may cause problems later.

Tom

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