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jolson wrote:

nagios408:408::/var/spool/nagios:/sbin/nologin

Would you mind changing the nagios users shell to /bin/bash?

nagios408:408::/var/spool/nagios:/bin/bash

It's somewhat interesting that you don't have a 'nagcmd' group - but that shouldn't be a problem if nagios without that setting.
Let's check permissions on a few files:

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ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/

Do any of the files in that directory have 'nagcmd' as the group? If so, we should create that group and add nagios+apache to it.

After these changes, can you switch user to nagios and run the ping command as described?

Best,


Jesse

[root@nagios ~]# ls -l /etc/nagios/var/rw/
ls: cannot access /etc/nagios/var/rw/: No such file or directory

jolson wrote:This should do the trick:

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usermod -s /bin/bash nagios

If it impacts functionality, you can always switch it back:

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usermod -s /sbin/nologin nagios

To find any files with the group 'nagcmd':

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find /. -group nagcmd