Bug 35096 – distccd user is too high (>= 1000)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paul Komarek 2003-12-04 15:16:41 UTC]

The uid for distccd on my system is 1000, and 1004 on a friend's system.  This
means that distccd gets exported via NIS no matter which (sensible) uid
threshold is used.  Unless gentoo is so sOOp3r-l33t that it has more than
one-thousand system user ids, perhaps it should stick to convention and keep
system user ids below some sensible threshold?  For instance under 1000, or
better, under 500?  I remember when 100 was the cut-off, and it wasn't that long
ago.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
distccd uid < 500

[Comment 1 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2003-12-04 15:35:05 UTC]

I'll change this in the distcc-config (to uid=240).

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2003-12-04 15:39:42 UTC]

if you change it to anything lower than 1000 it should go in
gentoo-src/eid_database/{passwd,group}

[Comment 3 Paul Komarek 2003-12-04 15:49:41 UTC]

Dang, that's a fast response, even for gentoo!

[Comment 4 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2003-12-06 09:31:04 UTC]

fixed in cvs

[Comment 5 Martin Gramatke 2004-03-25 14:15:51 UTC]

The latest version distcc-2.13-r1 still installs a user with an id above 1000.

[Comment 6 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2004-03-25 14:21:14 UTC]

Remove the distcc user and either run distcc-config --install or re-emerge distcc.