[SOLVED] Running Cacti as root

[ar1]

The below works.

Hi

I would like to run Cacti as root, as opposed to as cactiuser. I changed the following:

1. All the directory/file permissions to root
2. The crontab entry
3. shell> mysql --user=root mysql
mysql> GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO root@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword';
mysql> flush privileges;

Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks.

Note: The reason why I need to run as root is that I have created a new Data Input Method, which uses an ssh command to get data from the remote host, and the ssh keys are configured for root. Adding them for cactiuser to all the hosts is not feasible right now.

[fmangeant]

Note: The reason why I need to run as root is that I have created a new Data Input Method, which uses an ssh command to get data from the remote host, and the ssh keys are configured for root. Adding them for cactiuser to all the hosts is not feasible right now.

Hi

can't you use sudo to run SSH as root ?
Something like this in /etc/sudoers should do it :

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cactiuser ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ssh

Modity then your data input method to run "sudo /usr/bin/ssh" instead of "/usr/bin/ssh".

If it's not an option, running Cacti as root should work without any trick.

[eyechart]

running as root is a pretty bad idea.