Bug 453626 – net-analyzer/nagios-core-3.3.1 incomplete privilege grant

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Sergey S. Starikoff 2013-01-23 07:22:26 UTC]

Created attachment 336542 [details]
99_nagios3.conf with auth section

After installation of net-analyzer/nagios (with Apache web server i.e. apache2 USE flag) I was unpleased finding configuration inoperable.
Manual adding apache user to nagios group solved this issue.
To my mind portage should do it (add apache userr to nagios group) automatically together with adding nagios user/creating nagios group during installation of net-analyzer/nagios-core with apache2 use enabled, or at least warn user about necessity if this action.

Second similiar issue with the same package:
In concordance with guide draft (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nagios-guide.xml) ebuild expects that user will manually create .htaccess file and put it into /usr/share/nagios/htdocs and /usr/lib/nagios/cgi-bin directories.
That is not a good idea. According to my feel of FHS /usr/ subdirectories should not contain not registered in portage file (i.e. manually added .htaccess).
Auth section could be moved to /etc/apache2/modules.d/99_nagios3.conf (updated file is attached).


Portage 2.1.11.31 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.6.11-gentoo-2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.6.11-gentoo-2-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_II_X2_250_Processor-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:45:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.12-r1
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.9
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.27.1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/env.d /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --verbose --autounmask=n"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildsyspkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/                 ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/                 http://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Linux/gentoo/                 ftp://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Linux/gentoo/"
LANG="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_ALL=""
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://gw-1.caotus.ru/gentoo-portage/"
USE="X a52 ac3 acl alsa amd64 avi berkdb bold bzip2 cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus djvu dri dvd flac fortran gdbm gif gtk iconv jpeg jpeg2k lock mmx modules mp3 mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg openmp pam pcre pdf png policykit qt3support readline session sse sse2 ssl tcpd thunar tiff udev unicode utf8 vorbis xcb xulrunner zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="ru" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Michael Orlitzky 2014-11-22 22:01:12 UTC]

Your first issue fixed in the latest nagios-4.x series. Now, /etc/nagios will have its group changed to that of the web server user during the installation.

The documentation you mention in your second issue has been moved:

  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nagios/HOWTO

You are correct that the user shouldn't be modifying things under /usr. Now that page suggests /etc/nagios/auth.users instead, which is better. The auth directives need to be placed in the apache config file by the user himself, since we're not shipping auth.users and thus we can't be sure where it will exist. We don't want apache to crash on a restart after emerging nagios!

Now that the documentation is stored on the wiki, you can help us keep it up-to-date with any suggestions that you have.

And if either of these issues are not fixed to your satisfaction, please feel free to reopen.