how to start nagios with non nagios user

[Eliezer Croitoru]

This line will allow the non root user to run nagios as a root user..
So basically it should be:
"I want to start nagios *from* non root, nagios user. How do I do that."

Eliezer

On 08/02/2013 03:08 PM, Páll Guðjón Sigurðsson wrote:
> Adding these two lines to /etc/sudoers will help you (stolen from the adagios rpm package):
> 
> # Allow nagios user to restart the nagios service
> Defaults:nagios    !requiretty
> nagios             ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/nagios
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Avery" <jim at jimavery.me.uk>
> To: "nagios List" <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 2, 2013 11:39:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] how to start nagios with non nagios user
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 31 Jul 2013 14:30, ", Roy" < rp346 at njit.edu > wrote: 
>>
>> Hi guys, 
>>
>> I want to start nagios with non root, nagios user. How do I do that. 
> 
> 
> Something like.. 
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/nagios start 
> 
> should do it. 
> 
> You'll need to edit /etc/sudoers to allow your non-root user to do this. Enter 'man sudoers' to read all the gory detail on how to configure it. However... 
> 
> If your system is anything like mine (Ubuntu), you'll find you can easily give users sudo access to run any command as root by adding them to the 'admin' group. This is by virtue of this entry in /etc/sudoers: 
> 
> # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges 
> %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL 
> 
> 
> Although you might decide this gives them too much power... 
> 
> 
> I hope that helps. 
> 
> Jim 
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