Allow certain users to SSH to my nagios xi instance

[aastaguy]

Hi all,

This seems like an easy one and I am missing something, but I have a list of users that have web gui access to my nagios instance. I want some of them to be able to ssh into this instance as well. Currently, everyone that would need ssh access is using AD to auth to the web gui.

I tried adding "AllowUsers user1 user2" and restarting sshd but that didn't seem to do anything.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

[lmiltchev]

I tried adding "AllowUsers user1 user2" and restarting sshd but that didn't seem to do anything.

Where exactly are you adding this - in the "/etc/ssh/sshd_config"? Do you see the users in the /etc/passwd?

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cat /etc/passwd

Are you trying to log in the SSH Terminal in Nagios XI or you are using putty?

[aastaguy]

Correct, I added the command in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and I do not see the users in etc/passwd. I am guessing now I need to create the user from the command line? How can I do that using AD?

I am using putty.

Thanks!

[aastaguy]

Actually, I think I understand where I went wrong. You can close this ticket out. I am not going to integrate this with AD so all I really needed to do was to create the users via cli.

Thanks!

[lmiltchev]

Adding Linux users via AD is out of scope of Nagios support. Having said that, you could use linux command to add users.

To add a user:

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useradd <username>

Example:

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useradd jsmith

To set a password for this user:

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passwd <username>

Example:

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passwd  jsmith