Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that

Michael T. Halligan michael at halligan.org
Fri Apr 15 22:23:40 CEST 2005


D'oh. Worked perfectly, thanks!

Michael

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>>admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Michael T. Halligan
>>Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:06 PM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that
>>
>>I am trying to do cgi operations on a server without authentication
>>(yes, on purpose, it is physically cross-connected to a front-end
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>server
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>>and accessed via proxypass, no security lectures please). in
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>nagios.cfg,
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>>I have set a default user, but I am still getting this error :
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>>And I am getting  this error :
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>>Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that...
>>
>>It seems that you have chosen to not use the authentication
>>functionality of the CGIs.
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>>I don't want to be personally responsible for what may happen as a
>>result of allowing unauthorized users to issue commands to Nagios,so
>>you'll have to disable this safeguard if you are really stubborn and
>>want to invite trouble.
>>
>>*Read the section on CGI authentication in the HTML documentation to
>>learn how you can enable authentication and why you should want to.
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>use_authentication=1 along with default_user_name=blah in cgi.cfg.
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