user nagios permissions

[mansonli]

Does a local user called nagios has root privileges (defined in /etc/sudoers?) to run commands such as "/etc/init.d/nagios start"? No password is required to run them as nagios?

[benjaminsmith]

Hi,

When Nagios XI is installed a local nagios account is created and this account has to be able to restart services and run the backend scripts. This is all defined in the /etc/sudoers file. Also, depending on what OS you are using some of those entries such as ''/etc/init.d/nagios start' are there for backward compatibility.

Let us know if you have any other questions.
--Benjamin

See: https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =6&t=53907

[mansonli]

If password of nagios user must be changed because of implementing security policy, will it make nagios services and scripts fail to run or malfunction?

[benjaminsmith]

Hi,

There isn't a password set on the default nagios account. As mentioned, this will cause issues with starting and stopping services.

Code: Select all

chage -l nagios

Hope that helps answer your question.
--Benjamin

Reference:
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =6&t=47890