dont do this!!

[Kenneth Ray]

Though the below will get you up and running it will also leave you open to many vulnerabilities.
here is what you should try
first run the nagios -v
against your main configuration file, see if you return any errors.
second run nagios (configuration file)
no options
to see if you receive any command line errors when attempting to access the GUI.
third,
check your access logs when you attempt to access the GUI. Apache, as well as Netscape produce errors to inform you what the scoop is.

fourth,
make sure you have a default user with the same name as the install you installed with,
fourth. make sure your "allows" in your CGI have the user listed. (if you have the * allowing anyone access it should be the last entry, I have see it cause problems on my system when its somewhere other than the End of the
line, this is not documented but do it anyway k?)

with all of this done, try opening up the GUI in a window and you should see the user in the upper left corner of the CGI, if you do not.
login to the system running nagios and change to the subdirectory where your CGI's are held (make sure you are using the username you are running nagios as.)  type one of them in and set the appropriate variables to make it
display correctly,  ( you will understand what i mean once you type one of them in.) once you get a http formated text output, search the text for the key phrase "logged in" next to that information should be the actual user
that you are running it as. (by the way, Special thanks to Ethan, for keeping this function)

chmod 777 is not an answer, that means that anyone can WRITE to or change your files. Even non-authenticated users. IE: I could FTP from my web browser a corrupt file directly to your subdirectory(little finagling but it can be
done) without even supplying a valid user-name.
777 no!!!
no good
the key places to look here are the access logs, and the programs you run with the nagios user, most of the time these are the issues that cause the biggest problems.
I hope this helps.


>
>
> Message: 7
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] RE: Permissions Error
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:11:04 -0600
> From: "Robertson, Brown" <brown.robertson at maac.net>
> To: "Chris Fairbanks" <ChrisF at winterlink.net>,
>         "wrnash" <wrnash at wrnash.net>,
>         "Potter, G M (Greg)" <GPotter at MarathonOil.com>,
>         "Nagios-users (E-mail)" <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: "Scott Ripley" <sripley at chiaro.com>
>
> Eureka guys. It's definitely a permission issue. Chmod your
> htpasswd.users file (/usr/local/nagios/ets/htpasswd.users  if that's
> where you put it) to 777. That should do the trick. There weren't
> sufficient permissions to access that file for the authentication
> information. I'm almost positive this was the cause, but in case it's
> not, I chmod'd all my nagios directories to 777, .htaccess files to 777,
> and htpasswd.users file to 777. Hope that helps. Brown.
>
> Special Thanks to Scott Ripley for his suggestion in trying this.=20
>
>

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