Bug 133127 – nagios-core modifies existing user

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christian Gut 2006-05-12 08:37:55 UTC]

I had nagios running and need the "nagios" user beeing member of the group sms (for sending notifications via sms). The ebuild calls usermod regardless if the user existed before the ebuild. Instead of doing this, it better should call enewuser correctly. Changing the existing settings is really bad.

I propose either the following patch:

--- nagios-core-1.4.ebuild~     2006-05-07 22:36:38.000000000 +0200
+++ nagios-core-1.4.ebuild      2006-05-12 17:32:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@
        if use noweb; then
                enewuser nagios -1 /bin/bash /dev/null nagios
        else
-               enewuser nagios -1 /bin/bash /dev/null apache
-               usermod -G apache nagios
+               enewuser nagios -1 /bin/bash /dev/null apache,nagios
        fi
 }

[Comment 1 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2006-05-12 12:51:39 UTC]

Yep, you seem to be right.

I'll get it to CVS.

[Comment 2 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2006-05-12 13:32:39 UTC]

in CVS, thanks for reporting.