nagios.cmd external

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:

> You may be connecting to Nagios using nagiosadmin, but that is a user
> under your webserver, not an OS user.
> If your Apache runs under the user "nobody", that is the user you need
> to add to the nagioscmd group.

A better suggestion is in fact to run apache as it's own user. Letting 
nobody run all your daemons was a poor security concept and has been 
abonded for years on almost any system I know of.

It's like break one and get the rest of them for free.

Hugo.

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