<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hi lists,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I just checked in the CVS tree, and nagios/nrpe spec files still contains the non-system groupadds …<o:p></o:p> It’s not that I’m willing to see this changes at all costs in the official spec files since I have patched ones for now, but I guess I’m not the only one this kind of update will help… am I ?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Regards<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: nagios-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of SCHAER Frederic Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 4:26 PM To: Nagios Developers List Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] nrpe RPM spec file bug(s)<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Hmmm… by the way, the nagios.spec file has the same defect : it’s using “groupadd” whereas it’s using “useradd –r” … if this could also be corrected…<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Regards<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: nagios-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of SCHAER Frederic Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 2:06 PM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">nagios-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</st1:PersonName> Subject: [Nagios-devel] nrpe RPM spec file bug(s)<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Hi,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> In the nagios spec file, the nagios user is added with command « useradd –r » which creates a system account + system group.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> It looks to me that the first groupadd is then useless, isn’t it ?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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…<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> This would avoid conflicts with standard users/groups, and this would also make things more consistent.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks for patching && regards && merry Christmas ! :]<o:p></o:p> Frederic<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> </body> </html>