Allowing unauthenticated access to Nagios from select hosts

[Yueh-Hung Liu]

try "default_user_name" in cgi.cfg


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:35 AM,  <up at 3.am> wrote:
> We use Nagios with normal authentication (the nagios apache config file, much like
> .htaccess combined with Nagios's cgi.cfg) and want to allow a few internal hosts
> (with RFC1918 addresses) to access nagios withOUT user authentication.  These are
> basically large displays with no keyboard input.
>
> Doing the apache config for this was pretty straightforward:
>
>   AuthType Basic
>   Require valid-user
>   Allow from 192.168.199.99
>   Satisfy any
>
> However, although the main Nagios page come up fine, one cannot access any of the
> Monitoring links.  You get:
>
>  It appears as though you do not have permission to view information for any of
>  the services you requested
>
> Googling for docs on this, I figured the cgi.cfg was the culprit, but there does
> not seem to be any way in there to define hosts or IP addresses to give them
> unauthenticated access.  We already have this:
>
>  authorized_for_all_services=*
>  authorized_for_all_hosts=*
>
> We obviously need to leave authentication/authorization enabled for all other
> hosts.  Is there a way around this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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