Running nagios as root

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

normally, ping should have the SUID set and owned by by root, as to be
allowed to use ICMP ping

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 19:33, Marc Powell wrote:
> That's actually a really bad idea. The simpler and better solution is to
> make ping and fping executable by the nagios user --
> 
> [root at betelgeuse bes]# ls -al /bin/ping 
> -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        35192 Apr 18  2002 /bin/ping
> [root at betelgeuse bes]# ls -l /usr/local/sbin/fping
> -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        83254 Nov 15  2002
> /usr/local/sbin/fping
> 
> chmod 4755 /bin/ping /usr/local/sbin/fping
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: R. F. [mailto:visigoth at home.nl] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:56 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> Hi, I've been messing with Nagios for a week now and I can't get it to
> access/execute /bin/ping or /usr/local/sbin/fping. So I was wondering,
> is it wise to run Nagios as root? Is there a way to do it safely? If so,
> how, because it looks like the only option for me :(
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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