SEND_NSCA mimic login method

[Steve Shipway]

>That's exactly what I've been trying to do, with no success 
>because I haven't been able to figure out how NSCA 
>authenticates with nagios. I can connect, just not 
>authenticate and keep a session opent to send the status 
>through to it..

IIRC, NSCA *doesn't* authenticate with Nagios.  Because the nsca daemon is
running as the nagios user, it has write permission the the rw/nagios.cmd
named pipe, and just drops a command into there.

Note that this is how the web interface works, in part.  You can actually
drop *any* Nagios command in here (eg, schedule downtime, disable
monitoring, etc etc) as well as status notifications.

Of course I may be totally wrong, in which case someone will surely let me
know in about 0.1usec :)

Steve

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