check_dhcp

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Yes, the plugin needs to be suid root as it needs access to port 68 for 
dhcp.


On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Marc Powell wrote:

> Not having an installation to look at right now, I wouldn't think
> check_dhcp would need to be run as root, however if it does the idea is
> not to change the user nagios runs the plugin as but rather make the
> plugin suid root. For most unices you would chown root check_dhcp then
> chmod u+s check_dhcp. Consult the appropriate man pages for more
> information.
> 
> 
> 
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> Marc
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kjetil Kvig <kjetil at catchcom.com>
> To: Nagios-list (E-post) <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Thu Oct 31 07:02:03 2002
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_dhcp
> 
> How do you run a plugin as a different user? It is required to run the
> check_dhcp plugin as root, but how do you configure the
> service/checkcommand for this?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Kjetil Kvig
> 
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