authenticated user always "guest"
David Halik
dhalik at jla.rutgers.edu
Wed Mar 4 23:00:51 CET 2009
It figures that after three hours of debugging, as soon as I send mail
the problem is fixed. We actually use *two* htaccess files, and the
second one in the cgi area was missing. ;)
I did find a bug in config.inc.php which I'm upstreaming though.
Thanks anyways!
David Halik wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We've recently started to upgrade from Nagios 2.7 to 3.1 and noticed
> something odd.
>
> We use .htaccess with Apache in the Nagios webroot to restrict
> authentication to only our internal LDAP system. Once auth'd Nagios'
> cgi.conf then defines which users have which perms. Users coming from
> our "protected" IP space don't have to auth at all and get the default
> user of guest.
>
> This has been working fine for us over the last year or two, but since
> trying to move to 3.1 the same method and config files are giving us
> different behavior. After authenticating succesfully as user "bob",
> Nagios doesn't pick up bob as the auth'd name and just sees me as the
> default "guest". Which means bob's Nagios perms are not activated,
> guest's are.
>
> No matter what I've tried I can't get Nagios to accept the authenticated
> user name from Apache, yet I have this working fine in 2.7 with
> identical configs.
>
> Anyone else seen the same behavior or have any ideas? This really has me
> stumped and is a blocker for us upgrading.
>
> Thanks,
> -Dave
>
>
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David Halik
System Administrator
OIT-CSS Rutgers University
dhalik at jla.rutgers.edu
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