Re: 20010404: ldm uid

Unidata Support wrote:

> Anne,
>
> To my knowledge, we have never specified what UID LDM should be given.
> And, as far as I know, it makes no difference what UID the LDM account is
> given. But since you're the expert....and its lunch time.....
>
> Chiz
>
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> >From: Terri Eads <address@hidden>
> >Subject: ldm uid
> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
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> Hello,
>
> We have recently found a conflict with the traditional
> ldm uid of 101 on the current Debian release of Linux.
> The uid 101 on the current Debian is user telnetd.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1) Is there a reason for the low uid for ldm, or is
>    it historical?
>
> 2) Can it be changed with no ramifications?
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Terri Eads              Systems Administrator
> address@hidden           Research Applications Program
> (303) 497-8425          National Center for Atmospheric Research
>
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Hi Terri,

The LDM is not assigned any particular user id.   The user id is established
at your site - it's whatever the user id is for your ldm account.   Did you
untar the distribution as root?  In that case the user id of the resulting
files is set to the user id of the files from which the tar file was built.

The distribution should be untar'ed as user ldm.  If you did not do this, I
would chown the files to user ldm, which should set the uid correctly.

Anne
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