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Re: [LUG] Key-based SSH login for non-interactive user?

 

On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:39:13 +0100
James Fidell wrote:

> Grant Sewell wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Personally I'd use NRPE for this rather than connecting over SSH.
> 
> Or, rather, personally I *do* use NRPE for this :)
> 
> James

That would be my preferred route, but the guys who work on the servers
I'm trying to monitor seem not to want NRPE despite being quite
pro-Nagios in general.

Grant.

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