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_euvw on April 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: SSH Kung Fu

No, in that case, you limit the commands that nagios is allowed to executed using this specific, passphrase-less key.

In this case you would limit this ssh-key to only be able to execute the nagios monitoring scripts. Nothing else.

You do this in ~/.ssh/config on the remote machine.

rickr on April 28, 2014 [–]

I believe you mean ~/.ssh/authorized_keys?

For anyone interested here's an SO question with an example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/402615/how-to-restrict-ss...

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