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Hi im pretty new to using nagios xi, i installed nagios xi on a RHEL server based on the manual installation pdf.

I created a linux user named 'nagios' without a password, but the ./fullinstall script apparently does everything including also creating a linux user called 'nagios' for me. what i probably missed from the logs are the passwords for the created user 'nagios'. Now i cant seem to su into the user since i dont know the password for it. Does anyone know what the default values for this?

This is the pdf i used
https://www.google.com.my/url?sa=t&rct= ... 0616,d.bmk

There is no password set for user nagios by default. You will not be able to su to nagios unless you are root. Please do not set a password on the user.

So starting and stopping nagios services should be done as root rather than nagios user?

Yes. The nagios user should be treated as a system account, primarily for providing group/user permissions for most of nagios/XI.