Just installed Nagios 1.0 and suddenly having trouble with authentication

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Are the *cfg files readable by the apache user?

I think the cgi cannot read the hsot.cfg/service.cfg to find out if you 
are a valid contact.

-sg

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Mark Hennessy wrote:

> Here's the situation:
> Running FreeBSD 4.6.2
> Apache 1.3.27 with OpenSSL
> 
> Installed Nagios 1.0b5 from source, configured, all working fine.
> 
> Today, I installed Nagios 1.0 over the 1.0b5 configuration, and suddenly,
> authentication at the cgi level doesn't seem to be working right anymore.
> 
> To elaborate:
> I checked the permissions of the htaccess and htpasswd/htusers files, they
> all check out and are viewable by the user that the web server runs as.
> 
> I can do HTTP authentication, and Nagios reflects this by showing the
> proper logged in user, but I get the following error right underneath
> that (this happens for all of the Nagios cgis, obviously the message is
> specific to the Nagios cgi I'm using as an example):
> 
> It appears as though you do not have permission to view information for
> any of the hosts you requested...
> If you believe this is an error, check the HTTP server authentication
> requirements for accessing this CGI
> and check the authorization options in your CGI configuration file.
> 
> I tried disabling authentication in cgi.cfg, no change.
> 
> All of the nagios paths are the defaults.
> 
> I even ran a couple of the .cgi scripts from the commandline with the
> appropriate environment settings, and got the same message.
> 
> Where can I check next?  I couldn't find any debugging options for cgis in
> the documentation, and everything I found in the documentation regarding
> authentication appears to be in place properly already.
> 
> --
>  Mark P. Hennessy					      mark at cloud9.net
> 
> 
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