Web interface authentication
Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
Fri Nov 15 17:33:58 CET 2002
I've wondered about that too, but I hand out guest/guest to anyone I think
needs read-only access to the system.
Maybe you could set up a null password for guest.
jc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Baertschi [mailto:markus at markus.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:04 AM
> To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Web interface authentication
>
>
>
> Jim,
>
> I did configure 'guest' access. But Nagios still requires,
> that I authenticate
> using 'guest'. The browser asks for a userid anyway and
> accepts guest now.
>
> You make it sound like this is not the way it should work,
> I'll have to
> check what's wrong with my config in this case.
>
> With 'guest' properly confgured the the designated cgi's
> should no longer
> require any authentication, if I understand you right ?
>
> Markus
>
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:03:14 -0600, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
>
> >With 'guest' access, so long as you haven't included 'guest'
> in any of the
> >notification groups, then 'guest' can only view on a
> read-only basis. At
> >least the way I've configured it (which I derived from the docs).
> >
> >jc
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Markus Baertschi [mailto:markus at markus.org]
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:26 AM
> >> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >> Subject: [Nagios-users] Web interface authentication
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'd like to allow everybody to see some parts of the web interface
> >> (Status Overview, Summary, etc) while still requiring
> authentication
> >> for the 'active' parts like Scheduling Downtime, etc.
> >>
> >> When studying the documentation it looks to me that I can either
> >> turn authentication off and everybody has full access or une
> >> authentication, but then it is necessary for all cgi's.
> >>
> >> Can you give me a hint how to proceed ?
> >>
> >> Markus
> >>
> >>
> >>
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