Running the Icinga Agent as SYSTEM? No Thanks.
A safer way to run privileged Windows checks with SystemRunner If you’ve been monitoring Windows for a while, you’ve probably seen this pattern: some checks must run as LocalSystem (S-1-5-18), and the “quick fix” is to run the Icinga Agent itself as SYSTEM. It works. It’s also a really bad idea. Why? SystemRunner takes a…
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