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zabbix >= 7.4.1-2 may require manual intervention

Starting with 7.4.1-2, the following Zabbix system user accounts (previously shipped by their related packages) will no longer be used. Instead, all Zabbix components will now rely on a shared zabbix user account (as originally intended by upstream and done by other distributions):

  • zabbix-server
  • zabbix-proxy
  • zabbix-agent (also used by the zabbix-agent2 package)
  • zabbix-web-service

This shared zabbix user account is provided by the newly introduced zabbix-common split package, which is now a dependency for all relevant zabbix-* packages.

The switch to the new user account is handled automatically for the corresponding main configuration files and systemd service units.

However, manual intervention may be required if you created custom files or configurations referencing to and / or being owned by the above deprecated users accounts, for example:

  • PSK files used for encrypted communication
  • Custom scripts for metrics collections or report generations
  • sudoers rules for metrics requiring elevated privileges to be collected
  • ...

Those should therefore be updated to refer to and / or be owned by the new zabbix user account, otherwise some services or user parameters may fail to work properly, or not at all.

Once migrated, you may remove the obsolete user accounts from your system.

2.12.2 released

🐛 Bug Fixes & Minor Changes Increased allowed cache sizes (#862) by @spacecowboy in #862 🌐 Translations Updated Latvian translation using Weblate by @Coool in commit Updated Hungarian translation using Weblate in #811 Updated Thai translation using Weblate by @bowornsin in commit Updated Bulgarian translation using Weblate by @trunars in commit Updated Tamil translation using Weblate by @TamilNeram in #825 Updated Slovak translation using Weblate by @martinco78 in #850 Updated Indonesian translation using Weblate by @zmni in commit Updated Finnish translation using Weblate by @Ricky-Tigg in #861 Updated Portuguese (Portugal) translation using Weblate by @SantosSi in commit ❤️ New Contributors @martinco78 made their first contribution in #850