Change upper-bound system uid range to 499
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	• bzimport
	Jan 9 2013, 9:29 PM

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Author: rlane32

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Our ldap uids start at uid 500. This was the old range start for normal users, but has changed since we used this originally for svn. We should change login.defs to limit system accounts to uid 499.

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Reference: bz43795

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Set SYS_UID_MAX and SYS_GID_MAX to 499	operations/puppet	production	+14 -0

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Mentioned In: T179386: Prometheus crontab installations via Puppet failing on Toolforge bastion hosts due to remote crontab wrapper script
T114446: move human users out of UID range for system accounts

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:31 AM

• bzimport added a project: Cloud-VPS.

• bzimport set Reference to bz43795.

• bzimport created this task.Jan 9 2013, 9:29 PM

Aklapper removed RyanLane as the assignee of this task.Apr 26 2015, 12:12 PM

Aklapper added a project: Cloud-Services.Apr 29 2015, 12:18 PM

scfc claimed this task.Dec 11 2016, 4:52 AM

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scfc moved this task from Triage to In Progress on the Cloud-Services board.

Change 326311 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tim Landscheidt):
Labs: Set SYS_UID_MAX and SYS_GID_MAX to 499

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/326311

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 11 2016, 5:50 AM

Change 326311 merged by Andrew Bogott:
Set SYS_UID_MAX and SYS_GID_MAX to 499

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/326311

scfc closed this task as Resolved.Jan 6 2017, 7:35 PM

zhuyifei1999 mentioned this in T114446: move human users out of UID range for system accounts.Dec 6 2017, 8:08 PM

zhuyifei1999 mentioned this in T179386: Prometheus crontab installations via Puppet failing on Toolforge bastion hosts due to remote crontab wrapper script.Jan 22 2018, 7:33 PM

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