why NRPE can't run whit root user ?
Jason Martin
jhmartin at toger.us
Mon Mar 22 17:27:30 CET 2004
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It would be a better idea do have the plugin execute 'sudo' to do
whatever privileged operation it needs to do.
- -Jason Martin
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004,
Bill Corcoran wrote:
> if you can only run the plugin with root priv, consider running it
> setuid root. i'm not sure if nagios has some sort of protection against
> this, but it is probably what i would try. running apache suexec may
> give you some problems too, but again, worth a shot.
>
> as root, do a chown root on the file, then chmod 4755 or 6755. consult
> the man pages on chmod for more info. then, when anyone executes the
> plugin, the plugin will run as root.
>
> -bill
>
>
> LEBRETON Philippe wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > I want to run NRPE with the root user but it is impossible.
> > I want to run NRPE with the root user because, i write some somme plugin
> > that can only work with this user.
> > My question is : how i can exec this plugin with a root rights?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Philippe LEBRETON
> >
> >
> >
> >
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