Authentication problem

Sand Philipp Philipp.Sand at sycor.de
Mon Jul 19 11:09:11 CEST 2004


 In Nagios 2.0 by default you can only see Services/Hosts in which
you're defined as contact.
In cgi.cfg you can edit those lines:

authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin

To have an "allmighty" user.

- Philipp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of John Lange
> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:22 PM
> To: nagious-users
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Authentication problem
> 
> I'm trying out Nagios v2.0a1 and I am having a problem with 
> authentication.
> 
> I've setup Nagios based on a 1.2 version I had installed previously.
> Everything seems to be good with nagios itself, it is 
> checking hosts and sending notifications etc.
> 
> When I browse to nagios I get the login box and I 
> authenticate normally.
> So far so good. Problem is nagios keeps telling me that I'm 
> not authorized to see any information.
> 
> The upper left corner says "Logged in as ?".
> 
> I've gone up and down through the docs for authentication 
> (which appear to be unchanged from 1.2) and I can't find 
> anything wrong.
> 
> In cgi.cfg I have:
> 
> use_authentication=1
> 
> and I have tried the various:
> 
> authorized_for_xxxx settings as "*", specific username, and 
> even commented out, all to no avail.
> 
> I assume that nagios isn't picking up the fact that I've 
> logged in for some reason and thats the root of the problem. 
> Perhaps there is a new setting in 2.0 which I need to enable 
> in order to have nagios realize I logged in?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> --
> John Lange
> 
> 
> 
> 
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