Authentication Issues

[Marc Powell]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jody Noscov [mailto:jnosc at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:50 PM
> To: Marc Powell
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Authentication Issues
> 
> This is what I have
> 
> [root at localhost root]# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
> -rw-------    1 root     root           26 Mar 10 09:57
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users

[chop]

> [root at localhost root]# grep apache /etc/group
> apache:x:48:nagios
> nagcmd:x:501:apache,nagios

htpasswd.users is only readable by root. To fix, run as root --

chmod 640 /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
chown nagios:nagcmd /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users

When you add new users or edit the file, do so as the nagios user or
verify permissions afterward.

--
Marc




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