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Dears,

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Attached is a small patch that hopefully you'll take into account.

Its purpose is just to unify NRPE's way of creating nagios user and
group : it is currently creating a system user (using the -r option),
but a standard group (without the -r option)...

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So I changed that in the attached patch, and changed a bit the comments
in order to reflect this.

I hope you'll welcome this, but at least you'll be aware of the problem.

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Some background for this simple patch :

This is actually a problem for us, because we're installing nrpe on lots
of nodes which contain *lots* of local accounts, all created with a
pre-defined and unified (i.e : same on all hosts) UID/GID.

But when we add users after NRPE was installed, we sometimes run into
the situation when nagios GID is in fact using a GID we'd like to deploy
- and of course if we could be sure RPM install would guarantee the
nagios GID would be



















Dears,

 

Attached is a small patch that =
hopefully you’ll
take into account.

Its purpose is just to unify =
NRPE’s
way of creating nagios user and group : it is currently creating a =
system user
(using the –r option), but a standard group (without the –r =
option)…

 

So I changed that in the =
attached patch,
and changed a bit the comments in order to reflect =
this.

I hope you’ll welcome =
this, but at
least you’ll be aware of the problem.

 

Some background for this simple =
patch :

This is actually a problem for =
us, because
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