problems with a Script on nagios

[Rev. Dr. Aaron M. Segura]

Every user should have rights to read '/etc/passwd'.

More likely you don't have rights to read /var/log/messages as nagios.

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 10:14 +0200, Jose luis Fernandez wrote:
> Because the user on shell is "root" and you have rights to
> process /etc/passwd, but the user of NAGIOS doesn´t have rights to
> read /etc/passwd
> 
> Aritz.Lazkano at DaimlerChrysler.com escribió: 
> > 
> > Hi Nagiosexchange users!!! 
> > 
> > I have some problems with this  bash script. The objetive is to
> > monitor all the incorrect logins to the sistem so I created this
> > script. 
> > 
> > 
> > check_acces  
> > ----------------------- 
> > #!/bin/bash 
> > 
> > di=`date '+%B %d'` 
> > for i in `cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd`; 
> > do 
> > kkY=`grep  \Failed\ \keyboard-interactive/pam\ \for\ \
> > $i /var/log/messages |cut -c1-15|awk "/$di/"` 
> > if [ "$kkY" != "" ] 
> > then 
> > sa1="$sa1 User: $i Date of Attempts:$kkY" 
> > fi 
> > done 
> > 
> > kk6=`grep  \Failed\ \keyboard-interactive/pam\ \for\ \illegal\
> > \user /var/log/messages |cut -c1-15 |awk "/$di/"` 
> > 
> > sal2="EXISTING USERS:$sa1 NO EXISTING USERS: Date of Attempts:$kk6" 
> > 
> > sal3=`echo $sal2` 
> > echo $sal3 
> > 
> > 
> > The script works fine on shell, I execute the script  like this
> >   ./check_acces and it returns this  
> > 
> > 
> > EXISTING USERS: User: root Date of Attempts:May 31 08:40:03 May 31
> > 08:40:04 May 31 08:40:15 May 31 08:40:17 May 31 08:40:18 User: jon
> > Date of Attempts:May 31 08:40:33 May 31 08:40:34 May 31 08:40:35 May
> > 31 08:40:36 May 31 08:40:38 NO EXISTING USERS: Date of Attempts:May
> > 31 08:40:54 May 31 08:40:56 May 31 08:40:57 May 31 08:40:59 May 31
> > 08:41:01 May 31 08:41:02 May 31 08:41:04 May 31 08:41:14 May 31
> > 08:41:15 May 31 08:41:16 May 31 08:41:17 May 31 08:41:19 May 31
> > 08:41:20 May 31 08:41:23 
> > 
> > this is ok, it works fine. 
> > 
> >  But when I declare a service and a command on Nagios with this
> > script something extrange happends, only appears this on Nagios,
> > where are the incorect logins? They doesn´t appear. 
> > 
> > 
> >      
> >      
> >      
> >      
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Service                              Status           Last Check
> >                    Duration                 Attempt
> >    Status information                   
> >     
> > Incorrect Access  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >      
> >      
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > OK 
> > 05-31-2007
> > 09:30:46 
> > 2d 23h 30m
> > 55s 
> > 1/4 
> > EXISTING
> > USERS: NO
> > EXISTING
> > USERS: Date
> > of
> > Attempts: 
> > 
> > 
> > I dont know why when the script is executed by nagios it doesn´t
> > return anything and it works fine on shell. The script  executed by
> > nagios it doesn´t return the same as when you executed on shell.  
> > 
> > Someone knows something about this?  Thank you for help!!! 
> > 
> > 
> > Aritz. 
> > 
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