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Bug 80624
| Summary: | GID != UID | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | starback |
| Component: | system-config-users | Assignee: | Nils Philippsen <nphilipp> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | chris.ricker, irc, nalin, wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-11-23 16:39:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 79579, 100644 | ||
nalin, is there a way that libuser could tell us what the lowest unallocated uid and gid is? Changing component to libuser since it is what decides what UID to allocate to a new user and group. The lowest unallocated uid/gid is available as
ADMIN.getFirstUnused{Uid,Gid}.
When creating an user, s-c-users currently:
* creates an user entity
This also calls lu_user_default (), filling the entity with
a default (first unallocated) UID and GID and interpreting the
config file, which by default sets GID == UID [without checking
whether the GID already exists and without making sure the
group gets created, but that's another story]
* modifies the user entity, including setting the UID manually,
if needed
* if a private group is desired:
- creates a group entity
This calls lu_group_default(), filling a default GID
- sets user->GID = group->GID
- creates the group
* creates the user
I can't see any reasonable place where libuser would cause the GID
to be equal to UID.
s-c-users, OTOH, has the following possibilities:
* check whether "UID" is a free GID value, and set it in the
group entity manually if it is free
* use the GID from user entity, check whether it is a free GID value,
and set it in the group entity if it is free
(this depends on the default libuser config which specifies
userdefaults/LU_GIDNUMBER = %u).
system-config-users-1.2.19-1 should have a fix for this. |
Description of problem: Private gids aren't the same as uids, even when that would be possible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-users-1.1.1-5 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start redhat-config-users and add a user 2. Check create private group and specify user id manually. 3. Select a higher uid than the existing ones Actual results: The gid for the new user's private group will be the next free gid. On a fresh system it will be 500. Expected results: I expected the gid of the new user's private group to be the same as the uid, as it's convenient to have uid = gid for private groups. Additional info: