Comment/Downtime and Case Sensitivity

[Jason Lancaster]

I ran into this problem when first using Nagios. While it's not a core 
fix at the program's level, my suggestion would be to use all lowercase 
in host names and definitions. There's no need for upper case. Just do a 
simple conversion on your existing lines and you'll have a standard to 
follow from this point forward.

Jason

Ward Takamiya wrote:
> After many frustrating days of wondering why I couldn't post a comment 
> or downtime message (I had been getting the infamous "Sorry, but you are 
> not authorized to commit the specified command" message), I have 
> discovered that it will only work if I enter the host name exactly as 
> defined (paying attention to upper and lower case characters). I'm not 
> sure if it's just my server (Nagios 1.1 on Darwin, Mac OS X) or it's the 
> general case.
> 
> 
> I think it's more than a nuisance because the host names I have defined 
> have upper and lower case characters and if the other users with try to 
> post a comment and enter the name in all lower case (as I had been 
> doing), they'll only get the quite useless error message. I tried to 
> change the cmd.cgi to use strcasecmp instead of strcmp, but my C is 
> quite rusty and it didn't seem to make any difference.
> 
> Is this something particular to my setup? If anyone has any ideas of 
> what else I can try, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Ward
> 
> 
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