Re: issuing commands via shell to daemonised instance ?

[Daniel Maher]

On 09/22/2010 12:13 PM, Martin Pala wrote:

> 3.) if you use PAM (as you probably do with LDAP authentication), you
> need to add one "allow user:password" to monit configuration file. The
> monit CLI reads the configuration file and gets credentials which are
> used to connect to daemon from it (the daemon and CLI share the same
> configuration). The configuration file is protected by 0600 mode so only
> owner can read it (monit enforces the mode to protect the passwords and
> if it doesn't match, it refuses to start).

Adding a "allow user:password" to the config is exactly what i did; 
however, it violates the policy of managing all authentication 
challenges via LDAP (even if it is highly local).  It does appear to be 
the only solution though.

Thanks for the quick reply in any case !

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