[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#289879: marked as done (nagios-plugins: check_dhcp needs suid root)

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Package: nagios-plugins
Version: 1.3.1.0-11
Severity: minor

http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=74
"...Note that the plugin *must* best installed suid root in order to
run, as it binds to a privileged port (UDP 67) in order to listen to
DHCPOFFER packets. "

I understand why it shouldn't be setuid root out-of-the-box, but the
user should be warned that check_dhcp won't work unless it's setuid
root.  I didn't find mention of this in /usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins/*
either.

Do any other plugins require setuid root to work?


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mnemosyne 2.4.26-server-p3 #1 SMP Wed May 19 13:41:54 EDT 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages nagios-plugins depends on:
ii  bind9-host             1:9.2.1-2.woody.1 Version of 'host' bundled with BIN
ii  bind9-host [host]      1:9.2.1-2.woody.1 Version of 'host' bundled with BIN
ii  dnsutils               1:9.2.1-2.woody.1 Clients provided with BIND
ii  fping                  2.4b2-to-ipv6-4   Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to 
ii  libc6                  2.2.5-11.5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libldap2               2.0.23-7.2        OpenLDAP libraries.
ii  libmysqlclient10       3.23.49-8.7       mysql database client library
ii  libnet-snmp-perl       3.6-7             Script SNMP connections
ii  libpgsql2              7.2.1-2woody5     Shared library libpq.so.2 for Post
ii  libssl0.9.6            0.9.6c-2.woody.6  SSL shared libraries
ii  netkit-ping [ping]     0.10-9            The ping utility from netkit
ii  ntp-simple             1:4.1.0-8         NTP v4 daemon for simple systems.
ii  ntpdate                1:4.1.0-8         The ntpdate client for setting sys
ii  procps                 1:2.0.7-8.woody1  The /proc file system utilities.
ii  qstat                  2.4e-1            Command-line tool for querying qua
ii  smbclient              3.0.7-1           a LanManager-like simple client fo
ii  snmp                   4.2.3-2           NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen


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Source: nagios-plugins
Source-Version: 1.4.2-5

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
nagios-plugins, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.2-5_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.2-5_i386.deb
nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.2-5_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.2-5_i386.deb
nagios-plugins_1.4.2-5.diff.gz
  to pool/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.2-5.diff.gz
nagios-plugins_1.4.2-5.dsc
  to pool/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.2-5.dsc
nagios-plugins_1.4.2-5_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.2-5_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 289879 at bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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sean finney <seanius at debian.org> (supplier of updated nagios-plugins package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:35:16 +0100
Source: nagios-plugins
Binary: nagios-plugins nagios-plugins-basic nagios-plugins-standard
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.4.2-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Nagios Maintainer Group <pkg-nagios-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: sean finney <seanius at debian.org>
Description: 
 nagios-plugins - Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system
 nagios-plugins-basic - Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system
 nagios-plugins-standard - Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system
Closes: 289879 310780 336639
Changes: 
 nagios-plugins (1.4.2-5) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Sean Finney
     - add documentation to README.Debian about the plugins needing setuid
       root, why we don't install them setuid root by default, and some
       recommended methods for dealing with this (closes: #289879).
     - add documentation to README.Debian about the new package split.
     - config.h_debiandefaults.dpatch now modifies common.h instead of
       config.h.in, because the latter would sometimes cause build hosts
       to spontaneously regenerate the file, overwriting our changes.
       since all the plugins include common.h too... (closes: #336639).
     - include some patches from "F.A.G. Luteijn" <f.a.g.luteijn at knoware.nl>:
       * dhcp.cfg (with notes added by me about needing setuid)
       * disk.cfg (check_all_disks)
       * disk-smb.cfg (seperated check_disk_smb commands)
       * http.cfg (check_https_auth)
       * check_disk_smb: allow checking disk usage via host addresses.
       (closes: #310780).
Files: 
 3e1917c84548ad959f9aa4b1eea98e93 1018 net extra nagios-plugins_1.4.2-5.dsc
 dfce37f36acc8d9f4ddf2a85a9bc8d50 37776 net extra nagios-plugins_1.4.2-5.diff.gz
 73601b58b900fdd27de7fe7a0f46dc75 63306 net extra nagios-plugins_1.4.2-5_i386.deb
 d1c93b395a05e72997d9e40d667edab6 264646 net extra nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.2-5_i386.deb
 6eabd7fa8d8c00543834e89885a52c91 148004 net extra nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.2-5_i386.deb

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