sudoers: file deployed twice

[thesefer]

This issue respects the following points:

• This is a bug, not a question or a setup/configuration issue.
• This issue is not already reported on Github (I've searched it).
• I use the latest release of the Monitoring Plugins (https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/releases).
• I agree to follow Monitoring Plugins's Code of Conduct.

Which variant of the Monitoring Plugins do you use?

• .rpm/.deb package from repo.linuxfabrik.ch
• Compiled for Windows from download.linuxfabrik.ch
• Source Code from GitHub

Bug description

The debian package seems to deploy the sudoers file twice and they are different:

/etc/sudoers.d/linuxfabrik-monitoring-plugins and /etc/sudoers.d/monitoring-plugins

Steps to reproduce - Plugin call

diff /etc/sudoers.d/linuxfabrik-monitoring-plugins /etc/sudoers.d/monitoring-plugins

Steps to reproduce - Data

1c1,3
< Cmnd_Alias LF_NAGIOS = /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/about-me,\
---
> # This file is managed by Ansible - do not edit
>
> Cmnd_Alias NAGIOS = /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/about-me,\
3d4
<                     /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/deb-updates,\
31,32c32
<                     /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/strongswan-connections,\
<                     /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/systemd-unit
---
>                     /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/strongswan-connections
35c35
< Defaults!LF_NAGIOS !syslog
---
> Defaults!NAGIOS !syslog
37c37
< nagios ALL = NOPASSWD: LF_NAGIOS
---
> nagios ALL = NOPASSWD: NAGIOS

Environment

Linux alp96 5.15.0-134-generic #145-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 12 20:08:39 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Plugin Version

2.1.1-1

Python version

No response

List of Python modules

No response

Additional Information

No response

[thesefer]

dpkg -L lists the wrong file at the end. I just downloaded the deb manually and inspected it. The file is not present there. Could it be that this is a leftover file from before the new versioning syntax approach? I never deployed it via ansible.

[ma-benedetti]

/etc/sudoers.d/monitoring-plugins is a remnant from the pre v2 packages. It can be safely removed. We switched the underlying packaging tools in v2, that's why an upgrade (on Debian/Ubuntu) does not correctly remove the file. A clean install (i.e. remove v1 and then install v2) will remove the file correctly.

The Ansible header comment was incorrectly present in some v1 packages.

(As a side note, the v2 rpm packages correctly remove the old sudoers file when upgrading from v1)

[thesefer]

Alright, thank you very much for the confirmation. I was hesitant to remove it. I cleaned up all systems of this file with ansible.