Does check_by_ssh work with ssh-agent and/or keychain ?

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:00:59 -0500
Sean Dilda <agrajag at dragaera.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 09:40, Nardus Geldenhuys wrote:
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> > Hi People
> > 
> > Does check_by_ssh work with ssh-agent and/or keychain ?? Is there
> > anybody with a working system using this method ?
> > 
> > I have setup everything. The user is "nagios". I can "ssh user at host"
> > with no problem and no password prompt :) But when I run
> > "/usr/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh -H support at shark -C /usr/bin/ls" I
> > get this prompt "Enter passphrase for key
> > '/home/nagios/.ssh/id_rsa':".
> > 
> > Is the error with ssh or the plugin ?
> 
> plugin.
> 
> check_by_ssh uses the spopen() function to call ssh. The spopen()
> function is designed for nagios plugins.  However, one side-effect of
> spopen() is that it wipes out the environment before executing the
> program.

Not a side effect - a major goal. 

--
Karl


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