Error after installed Nagios in a new server

[Marc Powell]

On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:20 PM, ReynierPM wrote:

> Marc Powell wrote:
>> I don't know that I'd say security breach but it does show that  permissions are not an issue per se and that you're editing the right  file. 
> 
> Ok, if you said this I believe because you're and expert and I don't.

I'm a bit confused by this statement. This test was just a troubleshooting step, really to eliminate filesystem permission issues. As far as being a security issue, that depends entirely on your environment and policies. I have several nagios instances with authentication off and several with it on, based on our needs.

>> I have no more suggestions for you other than to try with  simple .htaccess/htpasswd auth instead of your LDAP auth. Perhaps  that's doing something strange to REMOTE_USER.
> 
> Maybe you or developers will take this into account for future version of Nagios.

Take what into account/how? There's nothing that nagios needs to account for. Either your auth plugin sets the normal auth environment variable and you've told nagios to expect that exact string or not.

> Personally in my work is better use a LDAP domain instead of create independents users every time I need gain acces to Nagios Web Interface.

My suggestion to do so was yet another troubleshooting step to eliminate your ldap auth plugin as a source of the problem. If you can log in with a htpasswd user and everything works then the problem is with the LDAP auth configuration in apache. It gives you a direction to look.

There's no reason you shouldn't be able to use LDAP auth assuming that your chosen auth plugin does the right things. A quick google for 'nagios ldap authentication' show several how-to's, specifically ldap against Active Directory so it can work... It appears the most common problem is that the ldap plugin may set the REMOTE_USER environment variable to the entire DN, not just the username part.

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Marc


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