CGI Authoristaion problem (and yes I have read the FAQ)

[Patrick Ouellet]

Thanx a lot Marc, that was the problem.

I though that because apache created the file it
would be readable by apache, but not!

htpasswd create the file with owner of the currently
logged in user, so it created htpasswd.users owned
by root. I changed the owner to apache and bingo !

Thanx a lot everyone for your fast answers.

Marc Powell wrote:

> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Patrick Ouellet [mailto:pouellet at microtecsecurite.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:28 AM
>>To: nagios users
>>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] CGI Authoristaion problem (and yes I have
> 
> read
> 
>>the FAQ)
>>
>>I have a simmilar problem.
>>
>>When I try to access the CGIs I am asked for a
>>user/pass but anything I enter get refused and
>>the prompt come back until I hit cancel,
>>then I get authorization required page. (401)
>>
>>/*
>>  This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the
> 
> URL
> 
>>"/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi". You either supplied the wrong
> 
> credentials
> 
>>(e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply
>>the credentials required.
>>*/
> 
> 
> 
> This isn't a nagios problem as the entire login process is handled by
> apache. Nagios just looks at the http_user environment variable set by
> apache to determine who you are. Obviously you're not even getting that
> far. I would hope that there would be some explanatory information in
> your apache error log. I suspect that it's a permissions problem with
> apache not being able to read your htpasswd.users file.
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> 
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Administrateur des serveurs reseaux
Informatique - Poste 130
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