Re: [Nagios-users] security & suid/sudo plugins

[Hari Sekhon]

Thomas Sluyter wrote: On 31 Aug, 2006, at 16:34, Hari Sekhon wrote: I have a difficult customer who won't sign off changes based on the security risk using suid plugins, for example, check_logfiles. What does one do about this situation? use sudo, that's what it's for. And then -don't- use sudo to run the script, but use sudo to run the actual command that's needed to read the logfile. Possibly even defining the actual arguments that will be given to the command. It's a bitch when it comes to upkeep, but it is the safest way of going about this... Using a suid script is asking for trouble... Anyone could change the script to read "rm -rf /*" Cheers! Thomas yeah well that was implied in the go learn how to use sudo properly hint... sorry I should have been more explicit in that. Only sudo the specific command (ie the plugin itself) and only for the one user. Done. Hari Sekhon

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