nrpe and nrpe_nt development

[Stephen Strudwick]

I also forgot to add that I've written a load of plugins for nrpe_nt in C
such as check disk, eventlog, cpu load, mem load, services etc.

I will release the source and binaries as soon as we have finished testing
on them.

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Stephen Strudwick
Advanced Development Engineer
Development Group, Product Development
PIPEX Communications
http://www.pipexcommunications.net/

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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Stephen Strudwick wrote:

> hello all,
>
> This is my first post to this list and I want to ask some questions
> about my company (Pipex) doing some development for nrpe and nrpe_nt.
>
> We have been using netsaint for a while and are upgrading to nagios and
> have decided to use nrpe for nt and unix boxes.
>
> I noticed the encryption using openssl is not really that secure, as far
> as I can tell it only encrypts the session between the client and server
> and dosnt stop anyone else with the nrpe client querying the server.
>
> The only protection the demon has as far as I can tell is the IP
> restrictions.
>
> We have some internal code we have been using for several years here that
> provides Blowfish encryption using shared keys, username pass
> authentication and all kinds of handshaking and security.
>
> The code is in C, and we have modules for *nix and NT.
>
> we also have an implementation as a Perl module (with C backend code).
>
> I would like to add this code to nrpe as a compile time option (say
> --use-blowfish on ./configure).
>
> And also to the NT version.
>
> If I add this code I would like if possible to be integrated into the
> current releases of nrpe so we dont create a static fork inside our
> company).
>
> Basically im looking for feedback as to whether this is neccessary/right
> thing to do, or have I misunderstood the openssl encryption.
>
> I envisage the shared key encryption working like nrpep with a -s
> <secret> option being used for a secret on the nagios server.
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
>
> -
> Stephen Strudwick
> Advanced Development Engineer
> Development Group, Product Development
> PIPEX Communications
> http://www.pipexcommunications.net/
>
>
>
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