Schedule An Immediate Check - I have rtfm and stfw no help

[Michael W. Oliver]

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On Friday, February 07, 2003 12:42, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> more information...
>
> # ls /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> total 2
> drwxrwS---  2 nagios  nagiocmd  512 Feb  5 15:11 ./
> drwxrwxr-x  4 nagios  nagios    512 Feb  7 12:41 ../
> prw-rw----  1 nagios  nagiocmd    0 Feb  5 15:11 nagios.cmd|
>
> # grep nagiocmd /etc/group
> nagiocmd:*:55554:nagios,nobody
>
> Now, I see in the 'SOLVED' reply that the 'nagios.cmd' file was created
> by the Nagios process with nagios:nagios ownership, but mine isn't
> created that way.  As you can see above, my nagios.cmd file is created
> with
> nagios:nagiocmd ownership.  You can also see that 'nobody' is part of the
> 'nagiocmd' group, which _should_ give 'nobody' rw access to the
> nagios.cmd file.  Even so, I still receive that error when trying to
> execute a command from the browser.  BAH!
>
> In addition, in the 'SOLVED' reply, it looks like the user 'nobody' was
> added to the 'nagios' group, effectively eliminating the need for the
> 'nagiocmd' group.  Isn't this insecure, putting the 'nobody' user in the
> 'nagios' group, effectively giving that user permission to everything
> that Nagios has permission to?  I was under the impression that the whole
> purpose of creating the new group was to limit the access of the 'nobody'
> user.
>
> What am I missing?  Thanks!
>
> --
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If there is anyone that can shed some light on why this isn't working, I 
would greatly appreciate it.

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