<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Alex,<br><br></div><div>I appreciate the quick response.<br></div><div><br>The bug reports and complaints in the package discussion should merit re-adding the feature. Let alone it must be explicitly configured if the feature is there.<br><br>It's akin to saying password based logins to ssh should be disabled permanently because someone with root access can give a person a blank password if they know how to edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.<br><br></div></div>You have said that you're orphaning the package and other people have offered to take over the maintenance duties. So the question really is, how do we get someone else maintenance duties for the orphaned nagios-nrpe package?<br><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div><br></div>--Jake<br><div><div><div><div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Alexander Wirt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:formorer@formorer.de" target="_blank">formorer@formorer.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Jake Burns wrote:<br>
<br>
> The --enable-command-args flag was removed from the configure arguments for<br>
> the nagios-nrpe package. There are numerous complaints/bugs filed about<br>
> this. In one of the bug discussion threads, the maintainer takes the<br>
> stance that the package is "orphaned" and will not re-enable the feature.<br>
><br>
> I am requesting that this feature be re-enabled as it is turned off in the<br>
> default config and has to be explicitly turned on.<br>
><br>
> I'm hoping one of you guys might be able to revert the package to it's<br>
> working state as the "maintainer" has quit maintaining the package because<br>
> of their disagreement with users.<br>
</span>I have to admit that the package is working fine on thousands of systems and<br>
that the removal of "--enable-command-args" was coordinated with the security<br>
team.<br>
<br>
Alex<br>
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