Re: Reserved GID for MongoDB

Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx> · Wed, 18 May 2016 14:17:07 -0400



    On 05/18/2016 01:21 PM, James Hogarth
      wrote:

    
        However MongoDB uses only UID staticaly. It is not

          > using preallocated GID - http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mongodb.git/tree/mongodb.spec#n327

          >

          > So I would like to ask how to fix this?

          > Is is OK to simply fix this in Fedora master? In current
          situation GID

          > differs on every machine, so the wont be any breaking
          change for users

          > I think (it is using 'getent group mongodb || ...'). Or
          may there be

          > some problem with this?

          >

          > 
        The relevant guidelines covering this are here:
        https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups

        
    I think Marek is suggesting changing the groupadd command to use
      specific UID (184) for new installs.

    
    Are you quoting the policy because it prohibits changing
      UID/GIDs? Are you concerned with updates on existing systems? 

    
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