Check_ping

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Brendon Caligari wrote:

> 
> RH73 + 256mb ram + everything functional
> 
> I installed nagios from source and nagios-plugins from rpm
> 
> 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???
> 
> 

The plugin calls your system's ping command which is suid.


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-sg



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