disable all authentication

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Thu Oct 1 21:38:58 CEST 2009


On Oct 1, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Marc Powell wrote:

>
> On Oct 1, 2009, at 4:18 AM, Albert Shih wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> How can I disable all authentication on Nagios ? (It's not for
>> production,
>> and I known what I'm doing ;-) )
>>
>> I've put
>>
>> use_authentication=0
>> default_user_name=guest
>>
>> and put «*» on
>>
>> authorized_for_system_information=*
>> authorized_for_configuration_information=*
>> authorized_for_system_commands=*
>> authorized_for_all_services=*
>> authorized_for_all_hosts=*
>> authorized_for_all_service_commands=*
>> authorized_for_all_host_commands=*
>
> I'm 99% certain wildcards are not supported here. Have you seen in the
> documentation that they are supported? Use the real user_name 'guest'
> here.

and of course, it's documented in cgi.cfg ;) It is specific to any  
user authenticated by the web server. Since you've disabled that  
authentication, REMOTE_USER is null. You still need to specify 'guest'  
for each of those.

--
Marc


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