Using both NTLM and htpasswd file authentication for NAGIOS web interface

[Alex Dehaini]

Thanks Marc

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:

>
> On May 23, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Ayotunde Itayemi wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Thanks for the response. Each authentication method works OK alone,
> > but I need to allow regular Windows AD users “read-only” access to
> > the Nagios web interface while allowing admin users (from the
> > htpasswd) access to the same interface. Actually, I wouldn’t need to
> > do this if I could get Nagios to allow designated Windows AD users
> > submit commands via the web interface.
>
> Nagios doesn't know or care if it's AD or htaccess, as long as your
> authentication modules sets the REMOTE_USER environment variable. Who
> does nagios show you 'Logged in as'? If it's blank, your auth
> mechanism isn't populating the variable. If there's a username shown,
> does that name exactly match an authorized contact for that host or
> service or specifically granted permissions to submit commands in
> cgi.cfg? Do you have 'can_submit_commands 1' in the contact definitions?
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
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