Permissions problem

[Giorgio Zarrelli]

Hi,

as user root you can su to any other user without being requested for any
passwords.

Anyway, if the nagios user has no valid shells in /etc/passwd, you won't
be able to su to it even though you are root.

Check the /etc/passwd, it's format is:


user:1020:1025:,,,:/home/user:/bin/bash

Look for user nagios and look and check for the last field, if it's
anything else thane /bin/bash or /bin/sh, change to one of these values.

Then, try to su to nagios again.

Giorgio


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> Hi, all.
>
> I've just installed Nagios 3.2.1-2 on GNU/Linux Debian Squeeze 6.0.4 &
> it's running fine but I have a permissions problem when trying to
> authenticate as the `nagios` user in order in the first instance to read
> the docs on the web interface (I get a 403).
>
> I've tried su'ing to root then su'ing to nagios but no luck as I've no
> idea what nagio's password is (I set the nagiosadmin password during
> installation & that works fine for the web interface but for nothing
> else).
>
> The only thing I can think of is chown'ing nagios's group to root but am
> wary of the consequences.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Phil...
>
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