Nagios CGI authentication woes.

[Jay Chandler]

Marc Powell wrote:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Peter L. Berghold
>> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:26 PM
>> To: nagios Users Mailing List
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios CGI authentication woes.
>>
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>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Just put up a new installation of Nagios (version 2.6) and it's not
>>     
> like
>   
>> I haven't done this before so there is obviously something I'm
>> overlooking.
>>
>> When I set up authentication I did the same things I've done before (I
>> think) but it ain't working.  When I try to log in I see in the Apache
>> error logs:
>>
>> [Mon Jan 22 16:18:26 2007] [error] [client 68.37.227.52] access to
>> /nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi failed, reason: verification of user id
>> 'peter' not configured, referer: http://monitor.berghold.net/side.html
>>
>>     
>
> [chop]
>
>   
>> The cgi-bin directory (/local/nagios/sbin in my case) has an .htaccess
>> file that looks like this:
>>
>> - -rw-r--r-- 1 apache root      104 Jan 22 15:58 .htaccess
>>
>> permissions wise and has the following contents:
>>
>> AuthName "Nagios Access"
>> AuthType Basic
>> AuthUserFile /local/nagios/etc/nagios.users
>> require valid-user
>>     
>
> Is that *really* the path to nagios.users? I would expect that to be
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.users. I place my bets here ;)
I'd go one further and bet it's /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios/users.

-- 
Jay Chandler
Network Administrator, Chapman University
714.628.7249 / chandler at chapman.edu
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