Externals Commands

[Hari Sekhon]

Marc Powell wrote:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:48 AM
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands
>>
>> I am having real difficulty getting external commands to work and
>>     
> don't
>   
>> full understand what's going wrong, despite having RTFMing several
>>     
> times.
>   
>> As an example, I log in to the web interface as nagiosadmin via basic
>> apache auth successfully as usual. I go to "comments" in the left hand
>> pane and enter one for a host but when I click submit, I get the
>>     
> error:
>   
>> "Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command.
>> Read the section of the documentation that deals with authentication
>>     
> and
>   
>> authorization in the CGIs for more information.
>>
>> Return from whence you came" <javascript:window.history.go(-2)>
>>     
>
>
>   
>> The apache process is run by the apache user, a member of the apache
>> group, so has full perms to the directory and the pipe file
>>     
> nagios.cmd.
>   
>> Nagios is run by nagios who is also a member of the apache group.
>>
>> This all looks as it should be according to the docs as far as I can
>>     
> see.
>   
>> What am I missing?
>>     
>
> Who does nagios see you logged in as? It will be displayed in the upper
> left of every page. If it's '?', verify your htaccess configuration for
> the nagios/sbin directory.
>
> --
> marc
>
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from the top of my logged in page:

Logged in as /nagiosadmin/
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