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 ? >
