Authentication Problems

[Marc Powell]

On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:27 AM, Mark Campbell shared with us:

> Hey Guys,
> 
> 	Been trying to get this working for a while now with no success.
I
> downloaded the new version of Nagios(1.2) and installed it to run as
> the same user as my webserver.  It compiled and installed without any
> problems on my   
> SunOS5.9 box.  I am using Apache2.0.48.  I then did a minimal config
> just to test the system before I go planning out the whole network. 
> Everything seems to be in order except that despite logging in via
> http, nagios doesn't seem to recognise the user I logged in as.  It
> gives me the error "Logged in as ?" in the top left hand corner of
> most pages.  As well as "It appears as though you do not have
> permission to view information for any of the services you
> requested..." type messages on overview and summary pages..       
> 
> I created the .htaccess and the htpasswd files as I normally would on
> the system. 
> 
> # cat httppassword
> admin:djaskyicya
> 
> # cat /usr/local/nagios/share/.htaccess
> AuthName "Nagios Access"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/httppassword
> require valid-user
> 

You missed the most important place. You _must_ have this .htaccess file
in /usr/local/nagios/sbin. Having it in /share just prevents
unauthorized people from gaining access to the main menu. The way you
have it currently set up, Apache will not pass the environment variable
REMOTE_USER to any of the CGI's because it's not required. Nagios simply
looks at that environment variable to determine who the current user is.
I believe that most people have the .htaccess file in both directories.

--
Marc


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