Web interface authentication

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

I've wondered about that too, but I hand out guest/guest to anyone I think
needs read-only access to the system.

Maybe you could set up a null password for guest.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Baertschi [mailto:markus at markus.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:04 AM
> To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Web interface authentication
> 
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I did configure 'guest' access. But Nagios still requires, 
> that I authenticate
> using 'guest'. The browser asks for a userid anyway and 
> accepts guest now.
> 
> You make it sound like this is not the way it should work, 
> I'll have to
> check what's wrong with my config in this case.
> 
> With 'guest' properly confgured the the designated cgi's 
> should no longer
> require any authentication, if I understand you right ?
> 
> Markus
> 
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:03:14 -0600, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> 
> >With 'guest' access, so long as you haven't included 'guest' 
> in any of the
> >notification groups, then 'guest' can only view on a 
> read-only basis.  At
> >least the way I've configured it (which I derived from the docs).
> >
> >jc
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Markus Baertschi [mailto:markus at markus.org]
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:26 AM
> >> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >> Subject: [Nagios-users] Web interface authentication
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I'd like to allow everybody to see some parts of the web interface
> >> (Status Overview, Summary, etc) while still requiring 
> authentication
> >> for the 'active' parts like Scheduling Downtime, etc.
> >> 
> >> When studying the documentation it looks to me that I can either
> >> turn authentication off and everybody has full access or une 
> >> authentication, but then it is necessary for all cgi's.
> >> 
> >> Can you give me a hint how to proceed ?
> >> 
> >> Markus
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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