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<p class=Default><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>This is
from “</span></font></b><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>Configuring Web Server
Authentication”.</span></font></b></p>

<p class=Default><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext;
font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>

<p class=Default><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>“”””The
second step is to create a file named </span></font></b><b><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:
bold'>.htaccess </span></font></b><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>in the root your CGI
directory (and optionally also you HTML directory) for Nagios (usually
/usr/local/nagios/sbin and /usr/local/nagios/share, respectively). The file(s)
should have contents similar to the following... </span></font></b></p>

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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>

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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>AuthName
"Nagios Access"</span></font></b></p>

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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>AuthType
Basic</span></font></b></p>

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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>AuthUserFile
/usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users</span></font></b></p>

<p class=Default><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>require
valid-user””””</span></font></b></p>

<p class=Default><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>

<p class=Default style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-22.5pt'><b><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>1.<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></font></span></font></b><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>Where exactly the
.htaccess file has to be created (Absolute pathname).</span></font></b></p>

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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>2.<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></font></span></font></b><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>There is no
htpasswd.users file in /usr/local/nagios/etc directory by default.</span></font></b></p>

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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>

<p class=Default><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>Thanks
in advance</span></font></b></p>

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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#3366FF'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Srinivasa Rao Cherukuri</span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Yak Communications (</span></font></b><font face=Arial><span
  style='font-family:Arial'>Canada</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>) Inc</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:scherukuri@yak.ca">scherukuri@yak.ca</a></span></font>
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