[o-ssh] Specifying a fixed uid for RedHat RPM PrivSep user

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Mon Jun 24 03:30:29 EST 2002


On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> I'm a little unconfortable with the way the privsep user is created in
> the RedHat spec files.  In particular the way a fixed UID is specified. 
> 
> Now it looks (from a glance at the apache/bind spec file) that it is
> 'the way it is done' - but is there a register of these numbers
> somewhere?  

see:  
/usr/share/doc/setup-2.5.12/uidgid
bash-2.05a$ rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/setup-2.5.12/uidgid
setup-2.5.12-1

for Red Hat 

-- Russ Herrold




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