I could of sworn I had this working but for some reason it's not working today. Scenario: login is qa, pass, web paints and I see only the qa systems (perfect), I can click on services, I can disable notifcations etc.etc.etc. So authentication and authorization appears to be working. Nothing special in my cgi.cfg file, qa is only setup in contacts and thus can see these hosts/services by default. Now, I have modified the outgoing alert to include a url to go to : <a href="http://host/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi?cmd_typ=34&host=qav01&service=Check_Disk">http://host/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi?cmd_typ=34&host=qav01&service=Check_Disk</a> This allows the groups to acknowledge their own alerts when they are messing around with their servers (QA/Dev etc) Now the above url comes up fine ( I login and authemticate as qa), but now I receive this error <div class="errorMessage">Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command.</div> Read the section of the documentation that deals with authentication and authorization in the CGIs for more information. Ummm okay, when I login and do this command from the gui, no issues but when I issue the cmd.cgi command and authenticate directly i'm for some reason not authorized, doesn't seem right. Ideas? Thanks Tory