Nagios cannot detect user

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Matteo Corti
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:30 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios cannot detect user
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I access nagios (2.0) through Apache and SSL (see below for the
> configuration)
> As expected Apache asks me to authenticate when loading the page but
> nagios is not able to get my user name. In the tactical overview I
see:
> 
>   Tactical Monitoring Overview
>   Last Updated: Mon Feb 13 09:24:30 CET 2006
>   Updated every 90 seconds
>   Nagios(r) - www.nagios.org
>   Logged in as ?
> 
> Since I am using authentication (use_authentication=1) I am not able
to
> access all the information pages.
> 
> If I set the default user everything works like a charm (i.e., the
rest
> of the configuration seems OK).
> 
> Many thanks for any hint.
> 
> Matteo
> 
> ================
> httpd.conf
> 
> # Force SSL
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteLogLevel 0
> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} "off"
> RewriteRule ^/nagios(.*)  https://%{HTTP_HOST}/nagios$1
[L,R=permanent]
> 
> # For SSL-servers
> ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/lib/nagios/cgi
> <Directory "/usr/lib/nagios/cgi-bin">
>    Options ExecCGI
>    SSLRequireSSL
>    AllowOverride None
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
>    AuthName "Nagios Access"
>    AuthType Basic
>    AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd
>    Require valid-user
> </Directory>

I believe this is your problem. If the nagios cgi's truly live in
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi, then the auth restrictions are not applied where
they're needed. You're applying them to the wrong directory,
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi-bin.

You're being prompted to log in because the auth restrictions to the
html directory _are_ working but that doesn't matter since the CGI's,
that need to see the auth info, are in another directory.

--
Marc


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