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Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:51 am**

How can I omit the the step ./2-usersgroups in an offline installation? Creating the installed.usersgroups in the fullinstall directory didn't do the trick. I have to omit it because of an existing user in AD and the install script is failing here:

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Running './2-usersgroups'...
Adding users and groups...
useradd: user 'nagios' already exists
groupadd: group 'nagios' already exists
groupadd: group 'nagcmd' already exists
ERROR: User 'nagios' was not created - exiting.
RESULT=1

The version I'm struggling to install is nagiosxi-5.5.8-1.el7.x86_64 on CentOS 7.5.1804.

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:26 pm**

@hubertbugaj, I looked at the code and there doesn't seem to be a way around this problem. Nagios verifies whether the user exists before touching the installed.usersgroups file. Try renaming the nagios user in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, then rename it back to the original after the installation is complete.

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:29 am**

The user nagios is in AD so it doesn't really exist in /etc/passwd.

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2019 6:56 am**

Managed to resolve the issue by temporarily leaving AD (removing lsass entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf for passwd).

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:17 am**

hubertbugaj wrote:Managed to resolve the issue by temporarily leaving AD (removing lsass entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf for passwd).

Glad to hear it is resolved.

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