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  • RHEL 7 and uid < 59000 in pam files

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    Hello,

    we are about to start deploying more and more RHEL 7 servers. On the few I have just done there is one, well, "issue".
    In some of the /etc/pam.d/* files there is stanza:

    # grep 59000 *
    fingerprint-auth:account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid  59000 quiet
    fingerprint-auth-ac:account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid  59000 quiet
    password-auth:auth        requisite     pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 59000 quiet_success
    password-auth:account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid  59000 quiet
    password-auth-ac:auth        requisite     pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 59000 quiet_success
    password-auth-ac:account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid  59000 quiet
    smartcard-auth:account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid  59000 quiet
    smartcard-auth-ac:account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid  59000 quiet
    system-auth:auth        requisite     pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 59000 quiet_success
    system-auth:account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid  59000 quiet
    system-auth-ac:auth        requisite     pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 59000 quiet_success
    system-auth-ac:account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid  59000 quiet
    
    

    On RHEL 6 it was uid 500. Does anybody know it has been changed from 500 to 59000 ?

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