nagios authentication issues

[n0cmonkey]

The documentation for this project stinks

Ok, I'm not sure if this is how it is supposed to work or not but: I setup Nagios and no matter what id I log into it with I get guest access. I can setup the guest account to be able to do everything, but that's annoying. Is it supposed to remember which user I login to it as? Why won't it do that for me? If I disable the guest account it tells me I am logged in as "?."

So obviously it can't figure this out, and since it logs almost nothing useful, I can't figure out how to fix it.

Back to google and the crappy documentation. Hope someone can help me with this one.

 

[Nothinman]

I've only used it as netsaint but then all it did was use normal Apache authentication, you just specify what users are allowed to do what and then setup a .htaccess file like normal.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I've only used it as netsaint but then all it did was use normal Apache authentication, you just specify what users are allowed to do what and then setup a .htaccess file like normal.

Nagios does the same thing. I have the .htaccess setup, and working (as far as initial authentication goes). If I type the password or username in wrong it does kick me out. But, after logging in as a non-guest user (nagiosadmin, ddp, n0c, whatever) it still says guest at the top and limits what I can do based on being logged in as guest. If I don't activate the guest account, it won't let me do anything.

Since you are using it, I'll try netsaint next. I'm trying to evaluate a few for work, and nagios was always at the top of the list. But if I can't limit users on what they can do and see, it's useless.

Thanks for the reply Nothinman.

 

[Nothinman]

I wouldn't go back to netsaint just yet, there has to be something simple you're missing.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I wouldn't go back to netsaint just yet, there has to be something simple you're missing.

I need to evaluate a few of them. The customer doesn't want just one choice

I figured it is something simple, but I haven't figured it out yet. I followed teh directions for most of it, although I haven't bothered with all of the configuration information since I haven't gotten past the authentication yet.

I added the Apache configurations word for word from the documentation. I can't think of any other Apache configuration options that would affect this, but I haven't played with cgi before.

Back to google and the docs I guess...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Ok, got it. I feel dumb. I didn't read the docs well enough. The .htaccess file has to be in multiple places, not just the html directory (also in the cgi directory). Works great now. Thanks!

 

[Nothinman]

But nagios is the successor to netsaint, you'd be going back to older revisions of the same code.

As for choices, What's Up Gold is a similar product by IPSwitch, but it only runs on Windows. I also remember reading about Big Sister in one of my Linux magazines, it's an attempt at a free, Big Brother compatible app.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
But nagios is the successor to netsaint, you'd be going back to older revisions of the same code.

Yeah, I read that. I got it mixed up with one of the othe projects listed on the requirements page.

As for choices, What's Up Gold is a similar product by IPSwitch, but it only runs on Windows.

I've used that before, and I think it's horrible. I think Nagios is what I want to recommend, but I should play with a few of them first.

I also remember reading about Big Sister in one of my Linux magazines, it's an attempt at a free, Big Brother compatible app.

Downloading bb now, but I'll look for Big Sister. It sounds familiar.

Link Analyst is another one. It's decent, but not free.