Arch Linux - News: zabbix >= 7.4.1-2 may require manual intervention

2025-08-04 - Robin Candau
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):
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:
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.
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