0002004: Upstream shifted starting UID / GID

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0002004

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app-openldap-directory - Directory Server

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2014-10-29 08:12

2015-02-05 10:37

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user2

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user2

Priority

normal

Severity

tweak

Reproducibility

have not tried

Status

closed

Resolution

fixed

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Target Version

7.0.0 Alpha 2

Fixed in Version

7.0.0 Alpha 2

Summary

0002004: Upstream shifted starting UID / GID

Description

The starting UID in ClearOS 6 was set to 500 (shadow-utils) and 1000 (OpenLDAP). This allowed end users to create shadow user accounts in the 500-999 range. Typically, the use case was for developer accounts and hacking around. It was also inadvertently used by poorly done application install scripts (applications should be using sub-500 UIDs, 500+ is for users).

In ClearOS 7, the starting UID is now 1000 (shadow-utils). This means we need to bump the starting UID in LDAP to something higher (e.g. 2000). This has implications for upgrades, but it's a minority of users who have used the 500-1000 user range in ClearOS 6. I'm not sure how upstream handles this -- it's a bit messy!

Ditto for GID.

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