check_by_ssh problem

Holger Weiss holger at CIS.FU-Berlin.DE
Wed Jan 2 23:14:49 CET 2008


* beick at zib.de [2008-01-02 21:56]:
> > On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:34 AM, beick at zib.de wrote:
> >> I want to do some checks on a remote host using check_by_ssh. Although
> >> user nagios can ssh to that host without being asked for a password
> >> the webinterface of my nagios is telling me:
> >>
> >> Unknown
> >> Remote command execution failed: Permission denied
> >> (publickey,keyboard-interactive)
> >>
> >> If I run nagios in the foreground I get prompts for password.
> >>
> >> Any idea what I might have missed?
> >
> > Are you using the exact same hostname/IP address for your command line
> > test as the nagios user that you have in your configuration?
>
> Yes, I think so.

"I think so" doesn't sound very convincing :-)

Anyway, there's no ssh-agent(1) involved?  Does it work on the command
line if you use "env -i /path/to/check_by_ssh [...]"?

Holger

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