Excellent idea. I will get this added tonight.
On 20 Mar 2005 at 13:20, Erek Dyskant wrote:
> Hi All,
> If you start Nagios as root, normally it drops down to
> the priveledges of you user you specify in nagios.cfg.
> However...If that user doesn't exist, it continues running as
> root.
> Maybe a better behavior would be to refuse to start at all? I'd
> rather have it not run at all than run as root without my explicitly
> telling it to.
> My two cents.
>
> Regards,
> Erek Dyskant
>
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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