Nagios alert via Twitter - authorization issue

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

That will not work anymore because Twitter is run by idiots who think
Oauth is the be all end all of security. It isn't.

It is perhaps a good compromise if you don't want to give your user and
password to a foreign website in order to have it do things on your
behalf but for local applications it actually *reduces* security by
imposing a more complicated method than http basic auth via https (BTW,
you should use https with basic auth always, and not http as you have)
full weird workflows.

I suggest the following:
  1) create an account in https://identi.ca/ (a Free Software social
network)
  2) use your command with the following difference in the url:
     https://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.json
     (they have a compatible api).

Best regards,
Rui

Seg, 2010-10-11 às 11:29 -0400, John Antram escreveu:
> Hello everyone! Before I attempt to re-invent the wheel with getting 
> curl:// command lines to authenticate to the new twitter API, has anyone 
> solved it?
> 
> I'm in the middle of moving part of our network to our new building and 
> just noticed I don't have any tweet-ed alerts since they put the 
> security on the API.
> 
> My command looks like this in command.cfg:
> 
> define command {
>          command_name    host-notify-by-twitter
>          command_line    /usr/bin/curl --basic --user "<user:password>" 
> --data-ascii "status=[Nagios] $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$ at 
> $SHORTDATETIME$" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json >> /dev/null
> }
> 
> Thanks everyone!
> 
> John Antram
> rewt at dvdmenus.net
> Subatomic Digital
> Essex/Williston Vermont
> www.dvdmenus.net
> 
> 
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