nrpe RPM spec file bug(s)

[SCHAER Frederic]

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...

 

Regards

 

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Frederic
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 2:06 PM
To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-devel] nrpe RPM spec file bug(s)

 

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...

 

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.

 

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.

 

Thanks for patching && regards && merry Christmas ! :]

Frederic

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