File monitoring-plugins-smart-README.SUSE of Package monitoring-plugins-smart

Two notes about the plugin and the security:

1) Apparmor profile

If you enable Apparmor on your machine, there is a special apparmor 
profile file:

 /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.nagios.plugins.check_smart

that tries to encapsulate the script. But as there is currently no 
special Apparmor profile for 'sudo' calls, once someone is able to 
edit the script itself, he will be able to compromise your system 
completely. But as the script is installed with ownership root:root 
and permissions 755, it might already be a problem if someone is able
to edit this script...

2) sudo rights

The check plugin 'check_smart' uses sudo to call the smartctl command.

In openSUSE 11.4 and beyond, there is a special file:

 /etc/sudoers.d/monitoring-plugins-smart

that contain the needed entry for sudo, so there is no need for manual 
adaptions.

If you run this script on older distributions (als SLES 11 and SLES 10 
is 'old' here as they contain an older sudo), you need to add a line 
like the following one to your /etc/sudoers file (via 'visudo'):

 nagios        ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/smartctl