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Ahoy.

I've made a small patch to allow nagios to be run without dropping
privileges if it's started as a non-root user.

Apply with
patch -p1 < nagios-nonroot-no_priv_drop.diff

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Andreas Ericsson [email protected]
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Lead Developer

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diff -urN ../nagios.orig/base/utils.c ./base/utils.c
--- ../nagios.orig/base/utils.c Fri Apr 29 13:06:23 2005
+++ ./base/utils.c Fri Apr 29 13:06:27 2005
@@ -3591,6 +3591,11 @@
printf("Original UID/GID: %d/%d\n",(int)getuid(),(int)getgid());
#endif

+ /* only drop privileges if we're running as root, so we don't
+ * interfere with being debugged while running as some random user */
+ if(getuid()!=0)
+ return OK;
+
/* set effective group ID */
if(group!=NULL){


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