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                Nagios/Icinga: "Warning: This plugin must be either run as root or setuid root."
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Nagios: plugins needing root privilege

the check_dhcp, check_icmp and maybe others plugins require root privileges to
run, because of the low-level packet mangling that they perform.
but, in the interest of the "safe default", these plugins will not
be installed with the suid bit set.  there are two recommended ways
about overriding this on your system:

set the suid bit with dpkg-statoverride: