help with web and cgi authentication

claus ch at greenmail.ch
Fri Jul 18 11:25:47 CEST 2003


I had the same just yesterday ...

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.user/12048

Could it be local disk access since apache runs under another uer ?

Regards,
Claus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jamie Baddeley" <jamie.baddeley at vpc.co.nz>
To: <gillian.bennett at celentia.com>; <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] help with web and cgi authentication


> yep. ? is the problem.
> 
> you need to closely at the http conf and find the part that has stuff
like 
> allow, order etc.
> 
> you'll probably find that apache is acting too liberally at moment.
> 
> hth
> 
> jamie
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:47, gb wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running rh9 fully patched on intel, and have just installed nagios.
> > I have set up the web config as per the suggestions in the doco, but
am
> > having some problems with the authentication.
> >
> > I have included the 2 stanza's in the httpd.conf file, I have set up
a
> > .htaccess file as recommended and then generated the htpasswd.users
file
> > as well, containing the names that will be using this monitor. nagios
> > itself is working just fine. As a long time user of netsaint, it wasn't
> > such a hard jump, and now my karma is much happier. ;)
> >
> > However, when I fire up the web interface, I get a message
> > "It appears as though you do not  have permission ..." blah blah blah.
> >
> > When I see the "Logged in as " string, it contains a ? , not a real
> > name. Is this the problem? I am starting up an IE6 session on a windows
> > 2000 box to attempt the web connection. I am not asked to log into the
> > web interface, so what have I done wrong?
> >
> > thanks, Gillian




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