<div>so obviously I RTFM or I wouldn't have got this far. One part that I did have questions of was the .htaccess creation, as the documentation I read only provided information for setting up users via htpasswd -c and changing your authorization functionality in the CGI's to 1. </div> <div> </div> <div>So I did a find / -name *.htaccess* and that file doesn't exist. Sounds like I need one?</div> <div> </div> <div>Sorry, there isn't anything in my /var/www/cgi-bin directory </div> <div> </div> <div>Is there something missed here?<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Deborah Martin</b> <<a href="mailto:Deborah.Martin@kognitio.com">Deborah.Martin@kognitio.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div> <div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">can you forward the contents of the .htaccess file that resides in the cgi-bin directory ? and a listing of the rest of the directory including the permissions</font> </span></div></div> <div><span class="e" id="q_10cc9fdef7d93816_1"> <blockquote> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> Justin Craig [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:jrcraig.email@gmail.com" target="_blank"> jrcraig.email@gmail.com</a>]<br><b>Sent:</b> 01 August 2006 14:46<br><b>To:</b> Deborah Martin<br><b>Cc:</b> Hari Sekhon; Martin J. Green; <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank"> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands<br><br></font></div> <div>i'm logged in as nagiosadmin and i have that username in all my cgi's. I have the sameissue, can't schedule downtime or issue external commands with the same error. I'm running nagios 2.4<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Deborah Martin</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Deborah.Martin@kognitio.com" target="_blank">Deborah.Martin@kognitio.com </a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">look at your /usr/local/nagios/sbin directory and check a) file permissions are correct and also whether your .htaccess authrization file is present. </font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">This error is generally caused by not correctly using .htaccess and also not configuring apache properly - check your httpd.conf is correctly configured</font></span> </div></div> <div><span> <div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div> <blockquote> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> Hari Sekhon [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:hpsekhon@googlemail.com" target="_blank"> hpsekhon@googlemail.com</a>]<br><b>Sent:</b> 01 August 2006 14:14<br><b>To:</b> Martin J. Green<br><b>Cc:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank"> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands<br><br></font></div>Martin J. Green wrote: <blockquote cite="http://mid5F54491268C784439D51B163322EE58C2F7B6B@gorilla.hq.altien.com" type="cite"> <div> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I can't get external commands to work either (appears it can't write to the file for some reason), but its so low on my list of priorities I haven't gotten to it yet. </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p> <div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext"> <hr align="center" width="100%" size="2"> </span></font></div> <p><b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a> [<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank"> mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Hari Sekhon<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> 01 August 2006 13:48<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> To:</span></b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: </span></b>[Nagios-users] Externals Commands</span></font><font color="black"><span lang="EN-US" style="COLOR: windowtext"></span></font></p></div> <p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span></font></p> <p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I am having real difficulty getting external commands to work and don't full understand what's going wrong, despite having RTFMing several times. <br><br>As an example, I log in to the web interface as nagiosadmin via basic apache auth successfully as usual. I go to "comments" in the left hand pane and enter one for a host but when I click submit, I get the error: </span></font></p> <div> <p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command.</span></font></p></div> <div> <p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Read the section of the documentation that deals with authentication and authorization in the CGIs for more information. <br><br><a>Return from whence you came"</a><br><br>As far as I can tell, I have all the perms set right according to the docs:<br><br>cgi.cfg<br><br>use_authentication=1<br>authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin <br>authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin<br>authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin<br>authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin<br>authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin<br>authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin <br>authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin<br><br>nagios.cfg<br><br>command_file=/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd<br>check_external_commands=1<br># NOTE: Setting this value to -1 causes Nagios to check the external<br># command file as often as possible. <br>command_check_interval=-1<br><br>ll /var/nagios/ | grep rw/<br>drwxrws--- 2 nagios apache 4096 Aug 1 13:28 rw/<br><br>ll /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd<br>prw-rw---- 1 nagios apache 0 Aug 1 13:28 /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd| <br><br>The apache process is run by the apache user, a member of the apache group, so has full perms to the directory and the pipe file nagios.cmd. Nagios is run by nagios who is also a member of the apache group.<br><br> This all looks as it should be according to the docs as far as I can see.</span></font></p></div> <p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">What am I missing?<br><br><br>Hari</span></font></p></div></blockquote><br>I think quite a lot of people have trouble with this but a lot give up or are satisfied that the main bit is working and don't bother with this... <br><br>does anybody have this working and if so could you post your configs so I can see anything you have different to me?<br><br>are external commands generally broken or is there something missing in the docs/our configs/our brains? <br><br>I'm using Version 1.4.1<br><br>Hari<br></blockquote></span></div> <div>************************************************************************ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 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