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Bug 1192413 - Reserve static gid/uid for jboss user (all MW & OpenShift layers impact)
Summary: Reserve static gid/uid for jboss user (all MW & OpenShift layers impact)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: setup
Version: 7.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Blocks: 1192088
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-13 10:09 UTC by Vaclav Tunka
Modified: 2016-11-11 06:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: setup-2.8.71-6.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, the Red Hat® JBoss® middleware and OpenShift products reserved the user ID and group ID pair 185:185 for the JBoss Application Server user called jboss-as. As this user is now going to be used more widely, a more generic name, jboss, has been chosen for it. With this update, the reservation of the user ID and group ID pair has been changed to jboss in the setup package, mentioning former reservations for jboss-as and wildfly.
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Last Closed: 2015-08-12 07:48:21 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 995045 0 medium CLOSED Review Request: wildfly - WildFly Application Server 2022-05-16 11:32:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2015:1599 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE setup enhancement update 2015-08-12 11:48:07 UTC

Internal Links: 995045

Description Vaclav Tunka 2015-02-13 10:09:40 UTC 
Description of problem:
Currently then the EAP product is being installed in the RPM version a jboss user and jboss group is being created, although it does not use static uid/gids:

JBOSS_SHELL=/sbin/nologin
%{_sbindir}/groupadd -r jboss 2>/dev/null || :
%{_sbindir}/useradd -c JBossAS -r -s $JBOSS_SHELL -d %{_localstatedir}/lib/jbossas -g jboss jboss 2>/dev/null || :

This is a problem, because the generated uid can conflict with some services. A static user and group id should be used.

Additionally, in the Cloud Enablement team we are preparing initial Docker images for JBoss products. Every product will be used launched as a regular jboss user. We need to base on a registered uid/gid to not choose an ID that could possibly conflict with some other service. Using static uid/gid in Docker is crucial, because the system administrator need to know upfront the id's to set up the volumes permissions for the selected user.

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Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2015-02-13 11:01:51 UTC 
Vasku, jboss-as is  reserved as 185/185 in RHEL 6 and RHEL 7. They are now discussing how to rename it properly. So I believe this is just confusion (and definitely not a blocker ;).
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2015-08-12 07:48:21 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2015-1599.html
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