Nagios cannot detect user

[Matteo Corti]

Dear Marc,

[...]
>> ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/lib/nagios/cgi
>> <Directory "/usr/lib/nagios/cgi-bin">
>>    Options ExecCGI
[...]
> 
> I believe this is your problem. If the nagios cgi's truly live in
> /usr/lib/nagios/cgi, then the auth restrictions are not applied where
> they're needed. You're applying them to the wrong directory,
> /usr/lib/nagios/cgi-bin.
> 
> You're being prompted to log in because the auth restrictions to the
> html directory _are_ working but that doesn't matter since the CGI's,
> that need to see the auth info, are in another directory.

Many thanks, whis was indeed the problem. I really didn't notice looking
at the config files since, without thinking too much, both
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi and /usr/lib/nagios/cgi-bin seemed reasonable.

Thanks again,

Matteo

-- 
Matteo Corti
ETH Zurich
Informatikdienste / Basisdienste
matteo.corti at id.ethz.ch
+41 44 6327944


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