On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:29:48AM +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > 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. Those uids shouldn't be on the system beforehand. They should only be created according to the registry. > Is there a registry for these system accounts yet? Yes, /usr/share/doc/setup-*/uidgid