Bug 155929

Summary:	net-analyzer/nagios-plugins - check_icmp module works only as setuid root
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Paul Tobias <tobias.pal>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	ramereth
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	172480

Description Paul Tobias 2006-11-22 03:38:57 UTC

I'm using check_icmp module and have check_host linked to it. In order for the plugin to function correctly it must, like the /bin/ping program, be run as the user root. So i gave him setuid root manually. When i re-emerged nagios-plugins the binary got overwritten with a non-setuid one. And my nagios host check stopped working.
I know people dont always like setuid root programs, but there is no point in having check_icmp without suid root.

have a nice day, bud

Comment 1 Paul Tobias 2007-03-22 20:03:47 UTC

Hi,

I got this again with the update to the new nagios-plugins version. So when you get:
check_icmp: Failed to obtain ICMP socket: Operation not permitted
it can be fixed by:
chown root /usr/nagios/libexec/check_icmp
chmod 4711 /usr/nagios/libexec/check_icmp
and to check if its working:
sudo -u nagios /usr/nagios/libexec/check_icmp localhost

Have a nice day, bud

Comment 2 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-08 21:59:48 UTC

Fixed in nagios-plugins-1.4.8