Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement
Subin Shakya wrote: I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'. How can I do that? I do not know where to go in Nagios config to make this happen. TIA, Symuser =0D Right now when I select a Host to schedule a downtime I get: =0D Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that... It seems that you have chosen to not use the authentication functionality of the CGIs. I don't want to be personally responsible for what may happen as a result of allowing unauthorized users to issue commands to Nagios,so you'll have to disable this safeguard if you are really stubborn and want to invite trouble. Read the section on CGI authentication in the HTML documentation to learn how you can enable authentication and why you should want to. Nagios is more polite than I am. RTFM and do some thinking and you'll find the answer. On a sidenote; I know the answer but I'm not interested in giving it to you when you haven't even bothered trying to find it for yourself. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement
Andreas, Thanks for your advice. But, FYI, I have done what I could before I painfully signed up and advertised my issue on this list. By the way, I am novice on Nagios (heck also with Linux) and took me a while to build the Nagios system which I am extremely proud of. What do you think? Can you pass your knowledge to me now? - Subin -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:27 AM To: Subin Shakya Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement Subin Shakya wrote: I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'. How can I do that? I do not know where to go in Nagios config to make this happen. TIA, Symuser =0D Right now when I select a Host to schedule a downtime I get: =0D Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that... It seems that you have chosen to not use the authentication functionality of the CGIs. I don't want to be personally responsible for what may happen as a result of allowing unauthorized users to issue commands to Nagios,so you'll have to disable this safeguard if you are really stubborn and want to invite trouble. Read the section on CGI authentication in the HTML documentation to learn how you can enable authentication and why you should want to. Nagios is more polite than I am. RTFM and do some thinking and you'll find the answer. On a sidenote; I know the answer but I'm not interested in giving it to you when you haven't even bothered trying to find it for yourself. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 === Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Symyx Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted, privileged and/or protected work product, and is meant solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately, permanently delete the original and any copies of this email and any attachments thereto. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement
Subin, have a look through cgi.cfg -mike On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Subin Shakya wrote: Andreas, Thanks for your advice. But, FYI, I have done what I could before I painfully signed up and advertised my issue on this list. By the way, I am novice on Nagios (heck also with Linux) and took me a while to build the Nagios system which I am extremely proud of. What do you think? Can you pass your knowledge to me now? - Subin -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:27 AM To: Subin Shakya Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement Subin Shakya wrote: I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'. How can I do that? I do not know where to go in Nagios config to make this happen. TIA, Symuser =0D Right now when I select a Host to schedule a downtime I get: =0D Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that... It seems that you have chosen to not use the authentication functionality of the CGIs. I don't want to be personally responsible for what may happen as a result of allowing unauthorized users to issue commands to Nagios,so you'll have to disable this safeguard if you are really stubborn and want to invite trouble. Read the section on CGI authentication in the HTML documentation to learn how you can enable authentication and why you should want to. Nagios is more polite than I am. RTFM and do some thinking and you'll find the answer. On a sidenote; I know the answer but I'm not interested in giving it to you when you haven't even bothered trying to find it for yourself. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 === Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Symyx Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted, privileged and/or protected work product, and is meant solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately, permanently delete the original and any copies of this email and any attachments thereto. -- --- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php? page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement
No, you didn't. The last link under Configuring Nagios in the documentation table of contents clearly says Configuring authorization for the CGIs. Read it! http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/cgiauth.html Authentication On Secured Web Servers If your web server is located in a secure domain (i.e., behind a firewall) or if you are using SSL, you can define a default username that can be used to access the CGIs. This is done by defining the default_user_name option in the CGI configuration file. By defining a default username that can access the CGIs, you can allow users to access the CGIs without necessarily having to authenticate to the web server.. You may want to use this to avoid having to use basic web authentication, as basic authentication transmits passwords in clear text over the Internet. Important: Do not define a default username unless you are running a secure web server and are sure that everyone who has access to the CGIs has been authenticated in some manner! If you define this variable, anyone who has not authenticated to the web server will inherit all rights you assign to this user! -f On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Subin Shakya wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:30:06 -0800 From: Subin Shakya [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement Andreas, Thanks for your advice. But, FYI, I have done what I could before I painfully signed up and advertised my issue on this list. By the way, I am novice on Nagios (heck also with Linux) and took me a while to build the Nagios system which I am extremely proud of. What do you think? Can you pass your knowledge to me now? - Subin -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:27 AM To: Subin Shakya Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement Subin Shakya wrote: I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'. How can I do that? I do not know where to go in Nagios config to make this happen. TIA, Symuser =0D Right now when I select a Host to schedule a downtime I get: =0D Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that... It seems that you have chosen to not use the authentication functionality of the CGIs. I don't want to be personally responsible for what may happen as a result of allowing unauthorized users to issue commands to Nagios,so you'll have to disable this safeguard if you are really stubborn and want to invite trouble. Read the section on CGI authentication in the HTML documentation to learn how you can enable authentication and why you should want to. Nagios is more polite than I am. RTFM and do some thinking and you'll find the answer. On a sidenote; I know the answer but I'm not interested in giving it to you when you haven't even bothered trying to find it for yourself. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 === Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Symyx Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted, privileged and/or protected work product, and is meant solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately, permanently delete the original and any copies of this email and any attachments thereto. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https
[Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement
I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'. How can I do that? I do not know where to go in Nagios config to make this happen. TIA, Symuser =0D Right now when I select a Host to schedule a downtime I get: =0D Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that... It seems that you have chosen to not use the authentication functionality of the CGIs. I don't want to be personally responsible for what may happen as a result of allowing unauthorized users to issue commands to Nagios,so you'll have to disable this safeguard if you are really stubborn and want to invite trouble. Read the section on CGI authentication in the HTML documentation to learn how you can enable authentication and why you should want to. === Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Symyx Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted, privileged and/or protected work product, and is meant solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately, permanently delete the original and any copies of this email and any attachments thereto. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Subin Shakya wrote: I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'. How can I do that? Strictly speaking, you can't. Set up a guest account with full access, do not set up authentication on your webserver, and it should work the way you want. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Morris Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 3:19 PM To: Subin Shakya Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Subin Shakya wrote: I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'. How can I do that? Strictly speaking, you can't. Sure you can. See the default_user_name and authorized_for_* variables and descriptions in cgi.cfg. -- Marc - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Marc Powell wrote: I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'. How can I do that? Strictly speaking, you can't. Sure you can. See the default_user_name and authorized_for_* variables and descriptions in cgi.cfg. I think we were both saying the same thing, though your detail and accuracy was far better than mine. :) My point was that you need to provide a username to Nagios one way or another; it can't be eliminated entirely. It could be called guest, or anything else, but you need a default user to keep Nagios happy. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement
-Original Message- From: Subin Shakya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 5:08 PM To: Marc Powell; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement Patrick and Mark, I added guest to all the authorized_for_* lines and the default_user_name is guest. But I got the same results. Do I need to do anything else like restarting apache, etc? Please always respond on list so that others may benefit from your experience in the future. No, you don't need to restart apache. Make sure you have use_authentication=1 in cgi.cfg. Do not create a .htaccess file or enable htaccess in httpd.conf for the Nagios directories. Nagios will not be able to determine the REMOTE_USER environment variable and will instead use the default_user_name. -- Marc - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
