nrpe RPM spec file bug(s)

[SCHAER Frederic]

Hi,

I have to manage servers with hundreds of local unix users created, and
all of these servers must have consistent UIDs/GIDs, just because of
local constraints (NFS for instance).

I also need to monitor these (computing) servers, but I cannot afford
having nrpe / Nagios / nagiosplugins create a nagios user whose UID will
collide with one of those local user IDs.

I don't mind creating my own specfile now that I know what went wrong
last time I installed plugins - actually I did create one as this UID
thing was no option for me -, and I was sharing this experience. You
could say I can create user accounts before RPMs are installed, but
actually it's more complicated for me than having the RPM scripts do it
;)

So, you seem to agree with me the missing "-r" option is a bug at least
for redhat systems spec file, don't you ? I think this option is nice,
I'm wondering if other systems might use the same, which would be
great...

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-devel-
>bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andreas Ericsson
>Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 2:59 PM
>To: Nagios Developers List
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] nrpe RPM spec file bug(s)
>
>SCHAER Frederic wrote:
>> 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...
>>
>
>>From the useradd man-page on Fedora Core 7:
>
> -r This flag is used to create a system account. That is, a user with
a
>    UID lower than the value of UID_MIN defined in /etc/login.defs and
>    whose password does not expire. Note that useradd will not create a
>    home directory for such an user, regardless of the default setting
>    in /etc/login.defs. You have to specify -m option if you want a
home
>    directory for a system account to be created. This is an option
>    added by Red Hat
>
>
>In short, -r is used to make useradd give the account a UID less than
>500 (or 1000), so as to be easily distinguishable from ordinary
>user-accounts.
>
>Also note that if you're using this option on anything else than a Red
>Hat compatible system (such as SuSE), you need to write your own
spec-file.
>
>--
>Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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