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On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:34:46 +0100
Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/6/9 Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > We're trying to setup key-based SSH logins for the Nagios service
> > so it can monitor some of our other servers remotely via SSH. I've
> > setup key-based SSH logins on my home server, but that was for
> > me... an interactive user account. As I said, I'm having a bit of
> > a dead-brain week (see me previous posts on other topics for
> > confirmation of this) and I can't for the life of me think how to
> > generate the RSA keys for the Nagios user account on the SSH client
> > machine.
> >
>
> su to the nagios user and use ssh-keygen to generate the key, then
> ssh-copy-id to copy it to the remote machines.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
The nagios account is a non-interactive account ("service account").
SUing to it doesn't work. Running the following fails also:
# su -c "ssh-keygen -t rsa" nagios
I suppose I could make the nagios account interactive
(editing /etc/passwd appropriately), run the commands and then set
nagios as non-interactive again... but I don't know if this would
actually work. I'll give it a go in a minute.
Grant.
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