NRPE binary and conf file owner and permissions

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nagisami
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NRPE binary and conf file owner and permissions

Post by nagisami »

Hello,

The NRPE client side consideration from the security perspective.

The binary and the conf file is supposed to owned by "root". Is that correct?

I understand the binary should be run as non-root user.

Thanks
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