Can the Data Center Security (DCS) sisips user UID be changed under 1000?

Products

• Data Center Security Server Advanced

Issue/Introduction

By default the sisips user UID is 1001. If you have a situation where the DCS user sisips needs a UID lower than 1000, you can follow this article to change the default UID.

Resolution

If 'sisips" user is created with required UID (can be lower than 1000) prior to executing agent installer binary then it will be used during installation

Please refer below steps
1. create group with required GID

# groupadd -g 949 sisips

2. Add user with GID (from step 1) and required UID

# useradd -c "SDCSS_User" -u 950 -g 949 -d /opt/Symantec/sdcssagent/IPS sisips

3. Create home directory with required permission for the user "sisips"

# mkdir -p /opt/Symantec/sdcssagent/IPS 
# chmod 755 /opt/Symantec/sdcssagent/IPS

4. Execute installer

# ./agent64-linux-rhel7.bin