Nagios XI - DIsabling password change by users

[botswanamtc]

I have created user accounts which are shared by a number of users and my problem is that some users change the user password without communicating with other users. Is there a way to disable password change for user accounts?

Thank you,

[lmiltchev]

I don't think this is possible. It is a not a good practice to have several users on the same account anyway. Each user needs to have his/her own account. Otherwise, you wouldn't know who changed what on the system. This could be very dangerous... Anyway, you are welcome to post a feature request or I can post one for you internally if you want me to. However, to be honest with you, I doubt this is going to be implemented.

[botswanamtc]

Hi lmiltchev,

Thank you for the reply.
My environment is a bit unique. We are managing a government network and each Ministry (23) have its own Departments with Network Administrator accross the country (about 300).

They are all expected to use Nagios to monitor their own branches hence we created only one account for each Ministry. I posted a question through one of my friends to ask if it is possible to integrate Nagios XI with e-directory and it seemed to be a big task. That way it going to be a bit easy to manage.

Thank you for the advice.

[abrist]

If you use ldap or AD, you could use the respective XI component for authentication against the respective auth server. That way users can only change their password through the auth server, allowing you to lock it down there.