Discussion: Feeding Emails to Nagios

[Ingo Lantschner]

Hello,
I designed a way to feed email from RAID-controllers (3ware) to Nagios 
but I am not sure how save the proposed solution is.
First I added an alias to /etc/aliases:
nagios: "|/usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers/handle-RAID-mail"

Second I wrote the script nagios/libexec/eventhandlers/handle-RAID-mail

Finally I had the problem, that postfixs "local", who delivers the email 
to handle-RAID-mail is chown nobody:nogroup which is far from being able 
to write into nagios/var/rw/nagcmd.

So I did:
$ sudo postconf -e default_privs=nagios

Now "local" runs as user nagios and the checks are fed into Nagios

BUT: Is there a more secure solution around w/o tampering the 
permissions of postfix?

TIA for your thoughts and suggestions - Ingo.


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