Issue with Nagios NRPE v3.2.1 not running as nagios user

[denmat]

Hi,
Similar to another issue reported previously for v3.2.0, v3.2.1 also fails to start as nagios user on multiple versions of AIX. Older versions of nrpe starts as nagios/nrpe user, but v3.2.1 always starts the daemon as root.
Has anyone found a cause for this please ?

[root/] # /opt/freeware/sbin/nrpe -V
NRPE - Nagios Remote Plugin Executor
Version: 3.2.1

[root/] # grep '^nrpe_' /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
nrpe_user=nrpe
nrpe_group=nrpe

[root/] # ps -ef|grep nrpe
root 8454216 1 0 Mar 09 - 0:05 /opt/freeware/sbin/nrpe -c /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg -d

[cdienger]

The latest version of NRPE is 4.0.2. Please install this, test, and let us know your results.

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe

You may also want to consider moving to NCPA(https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/) since the NRPE project has been deprecated.