Some more information and experimentation today. After reading the NRPE manual, I noticed that they refer to being able to log in as the nagios user and having a password.
The configuration which is established by the package installations under ubuntu are to have the nagios user allowing password-less login (a ! character for the password field in /etc/shadow), but the shell set to /bin/false, so no logins can take place. After setting a password for user nagios on both the server and the remote nrpe server, and setting a shell such as /bin/bash, the system seems to work. So why is it that proper functioning of the check_load plugin on the nrpe server requires a shell? and password for login? It does seem that the more correct method of operation is a non-login shell with permissions set appropriately in /etc/sudoers, but somehow that is not working. thanks, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
