Using ! in check_command

[Michael Eck]

Be obtuse, that's fine.  1) It's a read-only community string for a 
device that only responds to snmp requests from one host.  2) The file 
on the monitor station is only readable by the nagios user and root.  
3) There are only two shell accounts on the machine, which is 
firewalled to only accept connection from a few trusted hosts.

I'm not worried.


On Jun 15, 2004, at 5:30 PM, Andy Harrison wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:24:45 -0400, Michael Eck <meck at chilitech.net> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Is there a trick than anybody knows of the use a ! as a character in a
>> password for a check_command?
>> The obvious problem is that it's also the field delimiter.
>>
>
> Sorry for being obtuse, but if you're going to do something like embed
> a password right in a plain text config file, you might as well just
> change the password to straight alpha.
>
>
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