CGI authentication problems

[Paul Slinski]

Right, copying my .htaccess to /sbin fixed it. The docs only state that
it should be in /share...fixed now though. Thanks.

On a side note, I subscribed using a different email address but I'm
still able to post. Odd.

Thanks!

 On Fri, 21 Mar 2003
22:43:27+0100 bauchi <lists at bauchi.de> opened up to us and said:

> PS> When I log in, my username/password is accepted by Apache's
> PS> process but Nagios says 'Logged in as ?' and thus I cannot do a
> PS> whole heck of a lot. I've configured the system to use my username
> PS> in the htpassword/contacts.cfg file. They match.
> PS> This is Apache 1.3.27 and Nagios 1.0
> PS> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> PS> TIA
> 
> i've had the same probleme sometime ago
> 
> the problem was, that to access to the cgi-bin directory no
> authentication was needed...
> 
> we have nagios installed at /usr/local/nagios/
> the webroot is under share/ and the scripts are at sbin/ ..
> 
> you can protect the /usr/local/nagios/ directory by configuring
> it something like this:
> 
> <Directory  "/usr/local/nagios" >
>         AuthName "Nagios... please introduce yourself"
>         AuthType Basic
>         ... your favourite auth type (we use ldap)
>         require valid-user
>         ... other options to be configured
> </Directory>
> 
> or you also protect the sbin/ directory itself, but then you might
> have to login twice, once for the normal html frameset and the nav bar
> and a second time for the scripts ...
> 
> btw.. a standart rftm/read_your_webserver_logfile problem ;-)
> 
> hope that helps ;)
> 


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Paul Slinski
System Administrator
Global IQX
http://www.globaliqx.com/
pauls at globaliqx.com

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