Permissions problem

[Phil Dobbin]

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On 01/04/2012 11:52, Giorgio Zarrelli wrote:

> as user root you can su to any other user without being requested for any
> passwords.
> 
> Anyway, if the nagios user has no valid shells in /etc/passwd, you won't
> be able to su to it even though you are root.
> 
> Check the /etc/passwd, it's format is:
> 
> 
> user:1020:1025:,,,:/home/user:/bin/bash
> 
> Look for user nagios and look and check for the last field, if it's
> anything else thane /bin/bash or /bin/sh, change to one of these values.
> 
> Then, try to su to nagios again.

Hi, Giorgio.

That worked. It was set at /bin/false

Thank you,

Cheers,

  Phil...

> <quota chi="Phil Dobbin">
> Hi, all.
> 
> I've just installed Nagios 3.2.1-2 on GNU/Linux Debian Squeeze 6.0.4 &
> it's running fine but I have a permissions problem when trying to
> authenticate as the `nagios` user in order in the first instance to read
> the docs on the web interface (I get a 403).
> 
> I've tried su'ing to root then su'ing to nagios but no luck as I've no
> idea what nagio's password is (I set the nagiosadmin password during
> installation & that works fine for the web interface but for nothing
> else).
> 
> The only thing I can think of is chown'ing nagios's group to root but am
> wary of the consequences.


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