Is the 389 UID & GID required for dirsrv in 389-ds-base RPM?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Is the 389 UID & GID required for dirsrv in 389-ds-base RPM?
  • Possible to create dirsrv user and/or group with something other than 389 UID/GID?
  • Will 389-ds-base fail if 389 UID/GID is assigned to another group/user?
  • Install of 389-ds-base logs useradd: UID 389 is not unique error message.
  • The setup-ds.pl script for 389-ds-base fails with The user 'dirsrv' is invalid.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
  • 389-ds-base-1.3.6.1-19.el7_4 (or newer)

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