Externals Commands

[Justin Craig]

Right, so I have AuthUser in my httpd.conf file which uses htpasswd file

So, where are we with why I can't schedule downtime or issue external
commands?




On 8/1/06, Martin J. Green <mgreen at altien.com> wrote:
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>   Guess I should read the email in whole before I reply… :P
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> *From:* Deborah Martin [mailto:Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com]
> *Sent:* 01 August 2006 15:32
> *To:* 'Justin Craig'
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> *Cc:* Hari Sekhon; Martin J. Green; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* RE: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands
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> This file resides in the sbin directory (which is also cgi-bin). Note
> though - change the AuthUserFile path to wherever you are storing the
> htpasswd.users file.
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> It doesn't have to reside in the sbin directory, in fact since that
> directory is remotely/publically accessible via the webserver, its probably
> a better idea that it isn't. As long as the path in ur .htaccess or
> httpd.conf is accessible by your webserver user, and the file writable by
> the same, it can be anywhere on the file system.
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> When i was getting the 'return from whence you came error', this was
> exactly my problem - i hadn't set up authorisation correctly and the above
> was how i fixed it.
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> Incidentally, I have the authentication set up identically as described in
> the manual (with paths changed accordingly), and mine doesn't work J
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- Justin
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