Nagios 3 ACK author

[Andreas Ericsson]

Sven Wiedeck wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> a few words before:
> -> we're running a Nagios 3 installation
> -> logins are disabled - everybody is nagiosadmin per default (only 
> internally reachable)
> 
> Now I'm searching for a possibility to force the users to enter their 
> name when they acknowledge a problem.
> 
> Currenty the author name is set to the default login per default 
> (nagiosadmin).
> Some people leave this name in there and we can't see who has ack'ed.
> 
> Is there any way to leave the author name empty that Nagios rejects the 
> ack without entering a name?
> 

The simple way is to create per-user accounts with admin rights and
then create contacts with the same names as the usernames you set.
The difficult way is to hack the CGI's and recompile.

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