http_check & passwords

[Marc Powell]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Alex Huth wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have to implement websites, which have basic auth (develepmont &  
> testing
> stges) Even when they are only for dev and testing, i don' like to  
> put the
> password cleartext in the service.cfg to query them.
>
> Any other possibillity?

You can put them in resource.cfg and use $USERx$ macros to reference  
them. They'll still be visible in the process list as the plugin is  
being executed. I think it's generally expected that your nagios host  
is on a trusted network with trusted access...

--
Marc


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