Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement

[Andreas Ericsson]

Subin Shakya wrote:
>  I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any
>     kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'.  How can I
> do
>     that?
>     I do not know where to go in Nagios config to make this happen.
>     TIA, Symuser
>     =0D
>     Right now when I select a Host to schedule a downtime I get:
>     =0D
>     Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that...
>     It seems that you have chosen to not use the authentication
>     functionality of the CGIs.
>     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.
> 

Nagios is more polite than I am. RTFM and do some thinking and you'll 
find the answer.

On a sidenote; I know the answer but I'm not interested in giving it to 
you when you haven't even bothered trying to find it for yourself.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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