check_by_ssh -C & different user

[Assaf Flatto]

On Thursday 17 September 2009 12:42:33 Alex Huth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Even when it is not directly a nagios topic, i hope someone can help me. I
> have to execute with a eventhandler a command remote with another user as
> the user for nagios.
>
> Let's say the nagios user is aaa, the user to login remote by ssh is user
> bbb and the user who can execute the init script is also user bbb. The
> check_by_ssh command i have so far is the following:
>
> /adm/libexec/nagios/check_by_ssh -H xxx -l bbb -i
> /adm/etc/nagios/id_nagios -C '/etc/init.d/saprouter.sh restart'
>
> The process on the remote machine is running as nobody and must be killed
> to stop the service.
> So finally the user to execute a command has to be the same user as the ssh
> login user. How can i do that?
>

have you looked at the options of sudo ?
sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in 
the sudoers file .




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Assaf Flatto
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