NRPE unable to read output

[Andreas Ericsson]

Todd Barbera wrote:
> My bad. Yes, I meant the suid bit. When I have a shell script that calls
> root only executables, such as "raidctl" on Solaris, I need to set the suid
> bit in order to allow the nagios user to run the script. I'm not sure you
> say it won't work on scripts, it seems to work fine with mine. Perhaps we
> are referring to two different things.
> 

Can't speak for Solaris, but given how the invocation goes it really 
should be impossible without some kernel trickery or a suid /bin/sh 
(which is actually not necessarily as unsafe as it sounds).

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