Has this case converged? -- mark
Spoorthy H.S wrote: > Hi Darren, > > The service nrpe starts as "nagios" user. privileges is taken as > default. I have not mentioned the privilege in .xml file. > I have only this much in my .xml file. "<method_credential > user='nagios' group='other' />" > > > Thanks > Spoorthy > > > > > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> Spoorthy H S wrote: >>> Darren J Moffat wrote: >>>>> To monitor some system services, we start nrpe from root. Without >>>>> root privilage also, we can start this service. >>>> >>>> That doesn't answer the question I asked. Why does nrpe need to >>>> run as root ? If it doesn't need to then it should not make it so. >>>> >>> I checked now. This smf can run in user privilage also. >> >> So what user/group and privileges with SMF start nrpe with ? >> > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org -- <http://www.sun.com> * Mark A. Carlson * Sr. Architect *Systems Group* Phone x69559 / 303-223-6139 Email Mark.Carlson at Sun.COM
