Authentication problem

[John Lange]

Hello Sand. Thanks very much for your suggestions.

I did find information in the change log about authentication but still
to no avail.

"Authorization changes - Authorization for access to hostgroups in the
CGIs has been changed. You must now be authorized for all hosts that are
members of the hostgroup in order to be authorized for the hostgroup."

I assume "authorized for the host" means you are listed as a contact for
that host?

Here is some detail on my settings, perhaps someone can see whats wrong.

cgi.cfg
-------
use_authentication=1
authorized_for_system_information=wangster
authorized_for_configuration_information=wangster
authorized_for_all_services=wangster
authorized_for_all_hosts=wangster   
authorized_for_all_service_commands=wangster
authorized_for_all_host_commands=wangster   

contacts.cfg
------------
define contact{
        contact_name                    wangster
.....
}

contactgroups.cfg
-----------------
define contactgroup{
        contactgroup_name       bhb-admins
        alias                   Administrators
        members                 wangster
        }

hosts.cfg
---------
define host{
        name                   generic-host
...
        contact_groups  bhb-admins
...
}

define host{
        use                     generic-host
...
}

-------------------------

The only way I can get it to work is by setting:

default_user_name=wangster

The rest of the time I can't access anything and it indicates "logged in
as: ?" in the upper left. When I say "logged in" I mean I am using
apache .htaccess style authentication.

This was a working configuration under 1.2 so it must have something to
do with the way 2.0 authenticates with its hosts and contacts?

Regards,

John

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 04:09, Sand Philipp wrote:
>  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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