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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Admin’s are just standard httpd user accounts. The file is ~xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I took away the generic admin years ago, and have personal account for everyone. That way we know who does what.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I also have all the config files in RCS and we use our Unix shell accounts for check out and check in, so again, we have a paper trail of who did what change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In theory, you could in any valid httpd authentication method.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ian Diddams<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 08, 2015 9:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xymon Mailinglist<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] second administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">xymon 4.3.17<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">xymon server runs on a centos 6.5 system. Its installed under a user account of hobbit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">For GUI admin purposes (eg enable/disable/acknowledge alerts) we've used the standard unix account ie hobbit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Our Ops manager has asked if the ops can have a separate account for these GUI admin purposes... I guess so they can't be accused of
breaking anything as the hobbit user!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Firstly I'm not sure this would actually change anything - presumably any such second admin account would in effect need to have the
same permissions etc as the hobbit account?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Secondly - i can;t find how to add a second administrator account on such a linux system xymon server ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">any pointers, advice and thoughts gratefully accepted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Ian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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