Problem reading password from resource file

[maxleonca]

Hello,

I'm implementing some checks on our vm hosts, the checks seem to be working just fine if I run them by hand, but when I run them with the Nagios engine is having serious issues reading the password from the resource file.

Currently what I have is something like this on the resource file:

$USER20$=monitor
$USER21$=\@T4rd3$$

As you can see I have scaped the @ with a backslash and the $ with an extra $ but is not working.
If I run it by hand it works using just backslashes for both special characters, any idea on how to tackle this one?

Thank you

[tmcdonald]

If it is in the resource file you should not need to escape the characters at all.

[maxleonca]

Odd, I tried it in any way shape or form I can think of and still it doesn't work.

Any idea what may be the issue, I did double check the commands to see that the actual macros were being used and indeed they are.

[FTL]

what happens if you wrap the password in quotes?

"@T4rd3$"

[abrist]

You probably want to wrap the macro itself in quotes in the command:

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"$USER21$"

[maxleonca]

Thank you for your input, I still have the same message when I add quotes to the macro in the command file.
I figure that the issue here is the $ inside the password, but sadly I'm not in the liberty to change it.

Any other suggestions are more than welcome.

Cheers

[sreinhardt]

Does this particular plugin allow for accepting user\pass via file? You might be able to give it a flat file instead with the password and get out of having it in resources.