check_by_ssh anomaly

[Daniel Tandowski]

Ahh yes, thankyou both! For reference, the offending host_key was living 
in /var/spool/nagios/.ssh/known_hosts (as the nagios user has nologin).

Thanks again!



On Friday 01 June 2007 01:08, Patrick Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007, Daniel Tandowski wrote:
> > I appreciate your quick response, ssh known_hosts / authorized_keys was
> > my first culprit also... unfortunately, this doesn't explain why it would
> > work correctly when I run the same command nagios is running from the CLI
> > (using the same key)!?
> >
> > #/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh -t 60 -H <IP-Address> -l root -i
> > <RSA Key> -C /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_backup_log
>
> It's the host key, not the private key, so if you're checking as root
> (and it looks like you are), you're not looking at the same known_hosts
> as Nagios is.
>
> Log in as the Nagios user or store the host's key in the known_hosts
> file Nagios looks at when it logs in.

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