[newbie] nrpe security

[Giovanni Clemente]

Il giorno 06/mar/06, alle ore 17:36, Jason Martin ha scritto:

> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:41:04AM +0100, Giovanni Clemente wrote:
>> I would know if there's a way to provide authentication in
>> nrpe without resorting to tunnels. As far as I know, nrpe supports
> Althought not exactly authentication, you can configure NRPE via
> tcp wrappers or its own internal configuration to only accept
> connections  from a given set of hosts.
>
> What sort of attack are you worried about that isn't covered by
> tcpwrappers?
> -Jason Martin

I don't think Nagios will ever be our worst security hole...
That said, with a B-class fully switched network tcp-wrappers
are of little use...
I would have slept more comfortably with x509 :)

Bye,
   Giovanni
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Giovanni Clemente
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