CGI authentication makes me mad

[garrick]

Your symptoms appear to be related to nagios' authorization process, but
you are siting apache authentication configurations.  Those are two very
differnent things.

Does your web browser prompt you for a password?  If so, does it let you
in after entering a correct user/pass?  If yes, then apache and
authentication is setup correctly and your problem is a nagios config
issue.  If no, then authentication is still not working (nagios does not
do authentication, only authorization).

Does nagios show your username in the upper left grey box in the
"Tactical Overview" page?  If so, then nagios knows who you are and
you've been authenticated.  Does the apache user have read access to the
various files in /usr/share/nagios?

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:04:25PM -0400, Tristan-Matthieu Robichaud alleged:
> Hi peepz,
> 
> Please ignore the subject's sarcastic remark, I really have a hard time
> making Nagios's web interface CGI auth work. And maby I'm just a little
> bit flustered about the absence of a functionnal forum, and also when I
> discovered that the mailing list archives on SF.net seems to be broken.
> 
> I scupulously read the docs, did my homeworks, got rid of most error
> messages. I have a rather good knowledge of CGI and Apache server
> config, wich have also been scrupulously followed from the Nagios docs.
> After a few days of tremendous efforts, I did'nt find any one that could
> help me on this one, or any related documentation. 
> 
> Here's the prob. The htaccess auth works fine, but once logged in, it
> still complains with the standard "It appears as through you do not have
> permission to view information..." followed by the much more standard
> "If you believe this is an error (of course i do!), check the HTTP
> server requirements for accessing this CGI (yeah right) and check the
> authorization options in your CGI configuration file). On this subject,
> if I turn off this darn CGI authentication in cgi.cfg, shoudn't Nagios
> allow me to view every hosts? Well it doesnt. 
> 
> Nagios version is 1.1 (Debian packaged, if that's any help) turning on a
> freshly updated Debian "unstable" installation. Apache is 1.3.27 and
> works fine and all. 
> 
> here's my apache.conf
> 
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/nagios /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios
> ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios
> <DirectoryMatch /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios/>
> 	Options ExecCGI
> 
> 	AllowOverride AuthConfig
> 	order allow,deny
> 	Allow From All
> 
> 	AuthName "Nagios Access"
> 	AuthType Basic
> 	AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
> 	require valid-user
> </DirectoryMatch>
> 
> Alias /netsaint /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/
> Alias /nagios /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/
> <DirectoryMatch /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/>
> 	Options FollowSymLinks
> 
> 	AllowOverride AuthConfig
> 	Order Allow,Deny
> 	Allow From All
> 
> 	AuthName "Nagios Access"
> 	AuthType Basic
> 	AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
> 	require valid-user
> </DirectoryMatch>
> 
> Anyone have a slight idea of what could be slipping my mind?
> 
> thanks
> 
> -- 
> Tristan-Matthieu Robichaud <tmr at iscream.net>
> iScream.NET
> 
> 
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