check_icmp issues warning and does not run

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Nguyen, Tham wrote:

| I also checked under /usr/local/nagios/libexec folder and check_icmp is
| running under user root.  I changed root to nagios user and it produced
| the same error.
|
| -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  85170 May 15 16:26 check_icmp

This is BAD! Every user on your system can write to that file. With the
added SUID stuff you have now created a very lazy way of breaking into
your system and becoming root.

Hugo.

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	A: Yes.
	>Q: Are you sure?
	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
	>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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