Special Characters in passwords

[hgch]

Hi everyone


How can i use the special character ! in a password to check services with nagiosxi



thanks:::

[mguthrie]

The ! is actually a delimiter for service arguments with Nagios, so I would recommend avoiding using them where possible. One workaround that can be done is that you can define either a custom macro for that password either as a service macro, or if it's a commonly used password, you can enter it as a global macro variable in the /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg file.

[badcom]

Hi,

I'm having this same issue.

My password contains ! and I can't change it.

I went to the /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg and added a $USER8$=password, but I'm not sure how I can use it.

Is it possible to use it when I'm testing the command manually? I.e.:

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 /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H hostaddress -c check_fb -a '-u [email protected] -p $USER9$'

It didn't work.

Also, how do I add the $USER9$ to the check_command?

I have other passwords with the same issue. Will I have to create a check_command for each PW?

Cheers!

[badcom]

Just to add one more information:

If I run the command from the remote server which is where the plugin is, it works:

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/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_fb.pl -u [email protected] -p 'passwordWith!Mark'

However, if I run the below command from the server, it won't work:

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 /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H hostaddress -c check_fb -a '-u [email protected] -p passwordWith!Mark'