I can't set up the authorizacion for web interface

[Sebastian Schubert]

> Hi, everybody
> There is somebody can help me. 
> I am trying to access nagios with authorization. I've
> already configured the apache as shoulb be, I think so
>  and created the file .htaccess inside sbin and share
> directoy, modified the cgi.cfg file to allow the new
> user, and I've reloaded and restarted the apache but
> still i am having problem to access nagios with
> authorization. It doesn't allow me to start, it seem
> doesn't math the username with the password well.  I
> don't know if I need to know something else.  
> 
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Almayira
>  
hi almayira,


try this:
httpd.conf
ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ /usr/local/nagios/sbin/
Alias /nagios/ /usr/local/nagios/share/
<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/share">
Options None
AuthName "NAGIOS ACCESS"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
require valid-user
</Directory>

now set up a user like this:
htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users -s username 
this invokes the htpasswd programm and (-c) creates a new password file
where the password for user 'username' is stored as a (-s) SHA1 Hash
for a second user, just call htpasswd without the -c flag :)

and don't create a htaccess file, since users might be able to look into
that file ...
this should work smoothly ;)

bye
basti

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Sebastian Schubert - RHCE
Stadtsparkasse Munich
Network and Security
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basti at sskm.net
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