Setting up guest user for nagios

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Sat Nov 29 10:53:41 CET 2008


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Kenneth Holter wrote:
> Hi.
>  
>  
> I need to configure a guest account so that anyone in the organization
> interested in monitoring can log into our Nagios web interface.
>  
> Setting up the guest user account is a matter of adding the guest user
> to the required lines in "cgi.bin". What is the recommended practice
> here? I were thinking I'd add "guest" to each of these lines, but I'm
> not sure if these leaves the guest user with too much privileges:
>  
> 
>     * authorized_for_system_information=usernagios
>     * authorized_for_configuration_information=usernagios
>     * authorized_for_system_commands=usernagios

So they can now do pretty much shutdown operations?

>     * authorized_for_all_services=usernagios
>     * authorized_for_all_hosts=usernagios 
> 
> Does anyone have any recommendations on this?

I think using nagvis or looking glass or .... seems the better way to
add a view only account.

Hugo.

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