Check_ping

[Pettersson, Magnus]

By the plugin utilizing the system ping command, which must be suid root.

/magnus


-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Plewe [mailto:rplewe at hpce.nec.com]
Sent: 04 February 2003 13:57
To: Nagios users list
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check_ping


On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:33:10PM +0100, Brendon Caligari wrote:
> 
> The plugins were placed as /usr/lib/nagios/plugins as owner root.root
> 
> Nagios is running as sysadmin.sysadmin.
> 
> How can check_ping (ICMP ECHO_REQUEST???) be working if it's neither
> ~SUID'ed nor running as root???

By sending ICMP packages. 
What exactly is your problem? 


Rasmus


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