On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:07:13AM +0200, Arthur de Jong wrote: > Subject: update-notifier: refuses to start if the admin group exists > Package: update-notifier > Version: 0.70.7.debian-4 > Severity: normal > > On my system update-notifier refuses to start with the message: > > * (update-notifier:12663): WARNING **: not starting because user is not in > admin group > > In our environment we have an admin group that is used for > administrative staff (not system administrators). > > It took me quite a while to figure out what was going on and how to fix > it (not documented in /usr/share/doc or the manual page). It turns out > you should use the --force option in this situation. > > Please don't use a normal group name that is not a default system group > (perhaps the adm or operator group should be used instead if it contains > any members) or provide some other means for administrators to hide > update-notifier for users that shouldn't be made aware of updates. How about the following patch?
=== modified file 'src/update-notifier.c'
--- src/update-notifier.c 2010-04-18 16:01:56 +0000
+++ src/update-notifier.c 2010-05-21 09:53:49 +0000
@@ -455,6 +455,11 @@
if(grp == NULL)
return TRUE;
+ // The admin group is not a system group, so we just
+ // treat it as non-existent and return TRUE.
+ if(grp->gr_gid >= 1000)
+ return TRUE;
+
ng = getgroups (0, NULL);
groups = (gid_t *) malloc (ng * sizeof (gid_t));
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
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