User Permissions

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joe Regular
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:43 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] User Permissions
> 
> When viewing various areas of the nagios website on my server I am
> greeted with the following error message:
> 
> It appears as though you do not have permission to view process
> information...
> 
> If you believe this is an error, check the HTTP server authentication
> requirements for accessing this CGI
> and check the authorization options in your CGI configuration
> file.
> 
> I'm using an account that is a member of the nagios group and I've
> added the user to the htpasswd.user file.  What else am I missing?

Those are not file system permission errors, but internal Nagios ACLs.
Logged in users can only see hosts and services that they are authorized
contacts for. Everything else, like process information, must be
explicitly specified in cgi.cfg. 

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/cgiauth.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/cgiauth.html#default_rights
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/cgiauth.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configcgi.html#authorized_for_sys
tem_information


--
Marc




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