<html> <head> <meta name="Microsoft Theme 2.00" content="Currency.htm 011"> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hi all Right now I am at “Authentication And Authorization in the CGIs”. 1. “If you also want to require authentication for access the HTML pages for Nagios, add something similiar to the following in the web server configuration file as well.” <Directory /usr/local/nagios/share> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </Directory> The second step is to create a file named .htaccess in the root your CGI directory ………. PL LET ME KNOW UNDER WHICH DIRECTORY I SHOULD I CHECK FOR THIS .htaccess file. 2. Also after running (Setting Up Authenticated Users) the command “htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin” the file htpasswd.users in the /usr/local/nagios/etc is not created. Pl make a note that I am trying to implement Nagios with the basic system requirements. At the beginning (About Nagios), it was mentioned like this: “You are not required to use the CGIs included with Nagios. However, if you do decide to use them, you will need to have the following software installed... “. I have apache installed on the system (Sparc/Solaris9) and not not installing Boutell’s gd library should not be the problem. Thanks in advance Rao </div> </body> </html>