Authentication problems for accessing CGI

[Rimbert Rivera]

"Also verify that the user that apache is running as is in the same group as the nagios user if you are recieving this message when trying to write to the external command file.  Hope this helps."

This is the cause of the problem I just had. When I created htpasswd.users, I was logged in as an account that was different from the user Apache was using.  In my case, I just changed the owner and group of that file to the one Apache was using by using the chown command and it works now.



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-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Zac
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:41 AM
To: Miguel Gómez
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Authentication problems for accessing CGI

Please verify that your stanza for the cgi-bin dir in your apache httpd.conf looks similar to this:

<Directory /pathto/nagios/sbin/>
    AllowOverride AuthConfig       
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Also verify that the user that apache is running as is in the same group as the nagios user if you are recieving this message when trying to write to the external command file.  Hope this helps.

-Zac
On 4/15/05, Miguel Gómez <elmiguelonmakinon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> It's the second time I install nagios and I've found an error that I 
> didn't have the first time(just a couple weeks ago). I can 
> authenticate user nagios in the web browser but then when I try to see 
> service or host information I get this message:
> 
> "It appears as though you do not have permission to view information 
> for any of the hosts you requested... If you believe this is an error, 
> check the HTTP srver authentication requirements for accessing this 
> CGI and check the authorization options in your CGI configuration 
> file."
> 
> Things that I've done:
> I've used "htpasswd" to create the user "nagios" so I can 
> authenticate. I've edited cgi.cfg to give this user authorization to 
> everything, but I don't get out of this error.
> 
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