Can Nagios be installed to not use /home/nagios?

[pdindak]

On a server where I am installing Nagios 3.3.1 as sudo root, no /home directories are allowed.

Can I configure Nagios install to place /home/nagios somewhere else?

Thanks for your help!

Phil

[agriffin]

Yes, you can create the nagios user before you start the installation (from source) and give it a different home directory. For example:

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# /usr/sbin/useradd -r -m -d /var/log/nagios -s /bin/sh -c "Nagios User" nagios

This will put it in /var/log/nagios instead of /home/nagios. Hope that helps!

[pdindak]

It sure did! Thanks for the info!

Phil

[agriffin]

You're welcome, Phil! Glad I could help!