CGI Authentication

[Michael Smedeus]

Hi Rob

Haven't played with Nagios yet but in Netsaint (0.0.7) you can do this 
by adding "use_authentication=TRUE;" to "cgi/cmd.c" on row 1216, right
before the test sequence of this variable.

Hope this can give a clue on how to do it on Nagios also.




> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have disabled the CGI Authentication of my Nagios because I have =
> protected my webserver on IP based authtentication, but when I want to =
> schedule a downtime I get this message:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that...
> 
> 
> It seems that you have chosen to not use the authentication =
> functionality of the CGIs.
> 
> I don't want to be personally responsible for what may happen as a =
> result of allowing unauthorized users to issue commands to Nagios,so =
> you'll have to disable this safeguard if you are really stubborn and =
> want to invite trouble.
> 
> Read the section on CGI authentication in the HTML documentation to =
> learn how you can enable authentication and why you should want to.=20
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> well since I'm really stubborn, I want to dissable this safeguard, but I =
> have no clue how to do that.
> Can anyone help me out with that?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> Rob van de Camp
> 
> The Netherlands
> 

Regards Michael Smedéus



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