Nagios 3 external commands problem

[Frost, Mark {PBG}]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
>[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
>Of Israel Brewster
>Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:12 PM
>To: Nagios Users Mailinglist
>Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3 external commands problem
>
>I apologize for asking what I had thought was a FAQ, but I can't seem  
>to find the needed info now. At any rate, I just got finished 
>updating  
>my nagios install to version 3 (OpenBSD 4.2 OS), and aside from the  
>lack of a decent status map (no one has any suggestions there?  
>Really?) it's working. With the exception of external commands from  
>the web interface. For some reason, whenever I attempt an external  
>command from the web, I get the following error:
>
>Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command.
>Read the section of the documentation that deals with authentication  
>and authorization in the CGIs for more information.
>Return from whence you came
>
>I have the following in my cgi.cfg file:
>
>authorized_for_configuration_information=admin
>authorized_for_system_commands=*
>
>I actually don't want the "*" there,  but I stuck it in just 
>to see if  
>it fixed the issue. It didn't. I am authorized to the web 
>server, as I  
>got the login/password prompt, and nagios recognizes the fact in the  
>little header on every page that says "logged in as". The /var/nagios/ 
>rw/nagios.cmd file exists with permissions prw-rw----  1 
>_nagios  www,  
>and my apache error logs show no errors when attempting to run the  
>command. What am I missing? Thanks!
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>Israel Brewster
>Computer Support Technician
>Frontier Flying Service Inc.
>5245 Airport Industrial Rd
>Fairbanks, AK 99709
>(907) 450-7250 x293
>-----------------------------------------------

Can't say I can be a lot of help with the status map.  I never found it
to be workable in any form, so I just don't use it.

When I look at my own id in cgi.cfg, I'm listed in

authorized_for_system_information=
authorized_for_configuration_information=
authorized_for_system_commands=
authorized_for_all_hosts=
authorized_for_all_services=
authorized_for_all_service_commands=
authorized_for_all_host_commands=

and I have no problems doing anything (but I should have all these
rights anyway).  I've never heard that you could use a wildcard for
these fields.

Mark

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