[NRPE]Good Job

[Ethan Galstad]

On 20 Nov 2002 at 10:52, Pascal Miquet wrote:

> 
> Just to say that the NRPE is for me a good thing. I took less than an 
> hour to compile, install, and check things are working. 
> 
> I'm just surprised that commands seems to be frozen, I mean no 
> arguments from the Nagios server, just request the command and that's 
> it. 
> Note, I didn't test to pass arguments to the command on my nagios 
> server. 
> Should be better to give arguments on the command executed on the 
> remote server. 
> 
> Any way, 
> Thanks a lot for this nice feature. 
> Pascal Miquet 

I might add support for command arguments in NRPE in future versions 
(because its been requested so much), but I see this as a big 
security problem more than anything.  Allowing unauthenticated users 
to execute plugins with arbitrary arguments on remote systems is 
probably not a good idea.  In order to make it safer, I'd have to add 
encryption and some means of authentication/authorization.  Seems 
better to just use check_by_ssh if you really need that 
functionality.


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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