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Hi,
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In the nagios spec file, the nagios user is added with command which creates a system account + system group.
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In the nrpe spec file, there is first a standard groupadd on the Nagios
group, and then a useradd with the -r option for the user.
It looks to me that the first groupadd is then useless, isn't it ?
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By the way : when the groupadd is run, there's a grep on the hardcoded
"nagios" value, while just after the %{nsgrp} is used to add the group,
which is also a bug I think...
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Nevertheless, if the groupadd has to be kept, would it be possible to
use it also with the "-r" option ? This way, a system group would be
created.
This would avoid conflicts with standard users/groups, and this would
also make things more consistent.
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I can easily patch the spec file, but I'm using nrpe on a few hundred
machines, and I guess other people managing clusters may face the same
problem of GID conflicts that I just did, which could probably be easily
be avoided.... so here I'm sharing the problem and potential solution.
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Thanks for patching && regards && merry Christmas ! :]
Frederic
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Hi,
In the nagios spec file, the nagios user is =
added
with command « useradd –r » which creates a =
system
account + system group.
In the nrpe spec file, there is first a =
standard groupadd
on the Nagios group, and then a useradd with the –r option for the =
user.
It looks to me that the first groupadd is then =
useless,
isn’t it ?
By the way : when the groupadd is run, =
there’s
a grep on the hardcoded “nagios” value, while just after the =
%{nsgrp}
is used to add the group, which is also a bug I =
think…</fon
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