Nagios CGI authentication woes.

[Peter L. Berghold]

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Hi folks,

Just put up a new installation of Nagios (version 2.6) and it's not like
I haven't done this before so there is obviously something I'm overlooking.

When I set up authentication I did the same things I've done before (I
think) but it ain't working.  When I try to log in I see in the Apache
error logs:

[Mon Jan 22 16:18:26 2007] [error] [client 68.37.227.52] access to
/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi failed, reason: verification of user id
'peter' not configured, referer: http://monitor.berghold.net/side.html

and in the cgi.cfg file I've done this:

authorized_for_system_information=*
authorized_for_configuration_information=*
authorized_for_system_commands=*
authorized_for_all_services=*
authorized_for_all_hosts=*
authorized_for_all_service_commands=*
authorized_for_all_host_commands=*

which is not quite where I want to be but I've gotten there through
desperation at this point.

The cgi-bin directory (/local/nagios/sbin in my case) has an .htaccess
file that looks like this:

- -rw-r--r-- 1 apache root      104 Jan 22 15:58 .htaccess

permissions wise and has the following contents:

AuthName "Nagios Access"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /local/nagios/etc/nagios.users
require valid-user

The nagios.users file has the requisite userids in it with passwords
generated by htpasswd.

I'm baffled at this point. From my experience this should work but it
isn't.  Is there something I'm overlooking?

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Peter L. Berghold                                     Peter at Berghold.Net
"Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
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