Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement

[frank]

No, you didn't.

The last link under "Configuring Nagios" in the documentation table of 
contents clearly says "Configuring authorization for the CGIs". Read it!

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/cgiauth.html

"Authentication On Secured Web Servers

If your web server is located in a secure domain (i.e., behind a firewall) 
or if you are using SSL, you can define a default username that can be 
used to access the CGIs. This is done by defining the default_user_name 
option in the CGI configuration file. By defining a default username that 
can access the CGIs, you can allow users to access the CGIs without 
necessarily having to authenticate to the web server.. You may want to use 
this to avoid having to use basic web authentication, as basic 
authentication transmits passwords in clear text over the Internet.

Important: Do not define a default username unless you are running a 
secure web server and are sure that everyone who has access to the CGIs 
has been authenticated in some manner! If you define this variable, anyone 
who has not authenticated to the web server will inherit all rights you 
assign to this user!"


-f

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Subin Shakya wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:30:06 -0800
> From: Subin Shakya <subin at symyx.com>
> To: Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement
> 
>
> Andreas, Thanks for your advice.  But, FYI, I have done what I could
> before I painfully signed up and advertised  my issue on this list.
>
> By the way, I am novice on Nagios (heck also with Linux) and took me a
> while to build the Nagios system which I am extremely proud of.
>
> What do you think? Can you pass your knowledge to me now?
>
> - Subin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:27 AM
> To: Subin Shakya
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication
> requirement
>
> Subin Shakya wrote:
>>  I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any
>>     kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'.  How can I
>> do
>>     that?
>>     I do not know where to go in Nagios config to make this happen.
>>     TIA, Symuser
>>     =0D
>>     Right now when I select a Host to schedule a downtime I get:
>>     =0D
>>     Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that...
>>     It seems that you have chosen to not use the authentication
>>     functionality of the CGIs.
>>     I don't want to be personally responsible for what may happen as a
>>     result of allowing unauthorized users to issue commands to
> Nagios,so
>>     you'll have to disable this safeguard if you are really stubborn
> and
>>     want to invite trouble.
>>     Read the section on CGI authentication in the HTML documentation
> to
>>     learn how you can enable authentication and why you should want
> to.
>>
>
> Nagios is more polite than I am. RTFM and do some thinking and you'll
> find the answer.
>
> On a sidenote; I know the answer but I'm not interested in giving it to
> you when you haven't even bothered trying to find it for yourself.
>
> --
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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