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Special Forums Cybersecurity Best, secure way to ssh without needed password? Post 302799379 by Corona688 on Friday 26th of April 2013 11:46:56 AM

04-26-2013

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Originally Posted by springs2

I have a remote server that hosts a forum what i want to finish configuring my monitoring via Nagios. now because my home network uses a Dynamic IP nagios fails to work once the IP changes.

I think you can solve that without resorting to password injection.

Check the IP address of the server with a utility like ping or nslookup before you login, then add it to your known_hosts. Perhaps remove the old ones while you're at it so known_hosts doesn't grow endlessly.

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what is the best secure way for my monitoring server to ssh to the remote server without using passwordless keys?

There is no good, safe, secure way to inject plaintext passwords into ssh or anything else; this is why the keys mechanism was invented...

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nagios3

nagios3(8)							      nagios								nagios3(8)

NAME

       nagios3 - network/systems status monitoring daemon

SYNOPSIS

       nagios3 [-h] [-v] [-s] [-d] <main_config_file>

DESCRIPTION

       nagios3	is  a  daemon  program	that  monitors the status of various network accessible systems, devices, and more.  For more information,
       please consult the online documentation available at http://www.nagios.org, or on your nagios server's web page.

OPTIONS

       main_config_file
	      The main configuration file.  On debian systems this defaults to /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg

       -h     A helpful usage message

       -v     Reads all data in the configuration files and performs a basic verification/sanity check.  Always make sure you verify  your  config
	      data before (re)starting Nagios.

       -s     Shows projected/recommended check scheduling information based on the current data in the configuration files.

       -d     Starts Nagios in daemon mode (instead of as a foreground process).

FILES

       /etc/nagios3
	      Default configuration directory for nagios3

AUTHOR

       nagios3	is  written and maintained by Ethan Galstad <nagios@nagios.org>.  This manual page was written by sean finney <seanius@debian.org>
       for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system (but it may be freely used, modified, and redistributed by others).

sean finney							   February 2006							nagios3(8)