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Recommendations for how I should set maint-senders ?

list John Thurston
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:44:53 -0900
Message-Id: <user-7928c01ad547@xymon.invalid>

the --maint-senders option for xymond is explained as:
Controls which hosts may send maintenance commands to xymond.
Maintenance commands are the "enable", "disable", "ack" and "notes"
commands. Format of this option is as for the --status-senders
option. It is strongly recommended that you use this to restrict
access to these commands, so that monitoring of a host cannot be
disabled by a rogue user - e.g. to hide a system compromise from the
monitoring system.
But while exploring some unexpected client behavior today, it appears 
that --maint-senders is only enforced for hosts in hosts.cfg which are 
defined with explicit addresses.

On line 71 of lib/ipaccess.c I found this:
if (strcmp(targetip, "0.0.0.0") == 0) return 1; /* DHCP hosts can report from any address */
It looks like regardless of how I set --maint-senders, anyone can send a 
'disable' message for any host defined with 0.0.0.0   Since 90% of my 
500 hosts are dynamically defined in hosts.cfg, it feels like trying to 
clamp down --maint-senders is kind of pointless for me.

Can anyone suggest reasons why I shouldn't just blow that setting wide open?
-- 
    Do things because you should, not just because you can.

John Thurston    XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid
Enterprise Technology Services
Department of Administration
State of Alaska