It appears as though you do not have permission

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rusch, Daniel
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:00 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] It appears as though you do not have
permission
> 
> All,
> 
> Goal: to limit what services and hosts individuals can see to the
hosts
> that they are a contact for.
> 
> The manual states:

[chop]

> 
> thoughts?
> 
> below is my httpd.conf file
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ /usr/local/nagios/sbin/
> <Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin/">
>   <Files cmd.cgi>
>      AuthName "Nagios Command Access"
>      AuthType Basic
>      AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/.htpasswd.users
>      require valid-user
>   </Files>
>    Options ExecCGI
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
> </Directory>

In short, you deviated from the documented way of doing it and it got
you ;) You've specified that authorization only applies to cmd.cgi when
you actually want all the CGI's to know who the user is, especially
status.cgi. You get prompted to log in because you have auth enabled for
/share but because of the way htaccess works, that information isn't
known outside of the /share directory.
 
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/installweb.html

<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin">
    Options ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AuthName "Nagios Access"
    AuthType Basic
    AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
    Require valid-user
</Directory>

If you were wanting to limit access to cmd.cgi to specific users then
you can try something like the following (untested) --

<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin">
    Options ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AuthName "Nagios Access"
    AuthType Basic
    AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
    Require valid-user
    <Files cmd.cgi>
        require user bob
        require user fred
    </Files>
</Directory>

--
Marc


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