Advanced authentication

[Taylor Dondich]

Exactly.  You want to make sure a contact is setup and is assigned to
the appropriate objects.  The contact name should make the name
authenticated by apache.

Taylor

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Allan Clark wrote:
>
>> Hi Dustin;
>>
>> Be reminded that if you use this method (and it's what I used) then
>> you need to remember to use a wildcard (*) in your /etc/nagios/
>> cgi.cfg to give all who can see the CGI access via Apache the access
>> to do it.  Otherwise, Apache verifies their user/pass, but the
>> Nagios CGI denies them.
>
> Please explain... There are very limited cases i can think of that you
> would want to wildcard any of the authorized_for variables, none of
> which are required to access the cgi's when using authentication.
>
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