System UIDs/GIDs in RHEL7 (UNCLASSIFIED)

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Wed Jan 8 18:28:35 UTC 2014


On Wednesday, January 08, 2014 03:51:58 PM Shaw, Ray V CTR USARMY ARL wrote:
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-May/151663.html
> 
> Will UID_MIN and GID_MIN default to 1000 in RHEL7 as well?

Yes.

> I have not had
> (and do not have, sadly) time to check out the RHEL7 beta, but a quick
> search of several of the documentation pages didn't mention this.  I would
> imagine so, given things like:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907312
> 
> If so, should we expect the STIG for RHEL7 to reflect this, counting
> everything 1000 and below as a "system" account/group for relevant rules? 
> Just trying to get a head start on potentially necessary UID/GID changes.

It should be adjusted to this new boundary if its not already fixed.

-Steve



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