XI fullinstall - change nagios username?

[GldRush98]

Can we change the user account in the install scripts that nagios installs as?
Currently the username "nagios" is used elsewhere in the environment and we are being asked to change this user in the install and run it under a custom user.
Will this work, or will this break other things in nagios?

edit: It is RHEL7 just for the record.

[ssax]

There isn't an easy way to do this and I wouldn't recommend it anyways as a lot of things expect it to be nagios and will likely break. The XI installer doesn't support changing it at this time.

Is the system linked up the domain/ldap? (for SSH login to the system)

Is it failing on install? If so, please post the errors you are seeing.

[GldRush98]

Yeah, all users are controlled by a domain so we can't have the nagios user apparently.

[ssax]

If you change your /etc/nsswitch.conf it will should local first if you set files first in on these lines:

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passwd:     files XXX XXX
shadow:     files XXX XXX
group:      files XXX XXX

The recommendation would be that before you integrate AD/LDAP (or temporarily disable it), install XI first, connect to AD/LDAP, then update your /etc/nsswitch.conf to look at the local files first. A reboot would be recommended at that point as it will likely pick up the non-local nagios account for some things temporarily once you rejoin/connect the system.

[GldRush98]

Thanks, I will pass this info along.

[lmiltchev]

@GldRush98, let us know if it is OK to close this topic. Thanks!