Thanks. 
Probably no risk in adding to adm group as purpose of adm group is to be 
able to parse log files. 


On Monday, 13 June 2016 19:25:44 UTC+1, Darin Perusich wrote:
>
> Instead of using Nagios NPRE, think about using check_mk to extend 
> nagios to support all and more of what NPRE does. The check_mk 
> logwatch plugin can monitor your log files. Or if you don't want to 
> evaluate that just add nagios to the adm grp so it doens't trigger the 
> alarm. In the end it depends on what you're most comfortable with. 
>
> https://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk.html 
> https://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_logfiles.html 
> -- 
> Later, 
> Darin 
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Tahir Hafiz <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > We have a situation in which nagios, to do it's nrpe checks, has to 
> > constantly read the /var/log/syslog. 
> > Therefore, we constantly have alerts at level 3 such as: 
> > 
> > Rule: 5502 (level 3) -> 'Login session closed.' 
> > Rule: 5501 (level 3) -> 'Login session opened.' 
> > 
> > which involve sessions opening and closing for user root (as the nagios 
> user 
> > sudo's to read the syslog file). 
> > 
> > 
> > We don't want to have to whitelist these types of alerts as we want to 
> have 
> > warning if someone escalates their privileges. Therefore, is it 
> acceptable 
> > to have nagios user added to the adm group as the adm group can read the 
> > syslog file? What are the right ways to solve this? 
> > 
> > Cheers 
> > 
> > 
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