Re: nagios.cmd ... "Sorry, you are not authorized..." -- Argh!

Umm....Did you edit the cfg.cgi file and give nagiosadmin permission? Sorry the drugs have kicked in so my brain is messed... :)

 authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin

 "Olivier Beauchemin (Accolade Group)" <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Whelp, I'm stumped.
>
> I can't figure out why I can't do things like add comments, disable service
> checks, schedule downtime etc.
>
> I've set myself up as nagiosadmin, right out of the box. I can see and do
> everything else...
>
> Just for fun, I've set up other hosts, with different contact names and then
> setup different usernames (doing basic auth, using Apache)... and that works
> as documented.
>
> What's the trick? I've already read: nagios/docs/commandfile.html.
>
> Thanks,
> Olivier
>
> PS.
> I've noticed that when I login, it says logged in as 'nagiosadmin' (which is
> correct). But, when I hit "commit" to disable a service check, for example,
> the "Sorry" page indicates logged in as ?.
>
> [obeauche@mrtg var]# ls -la
> total 904
> drwxrwxr-x 4 nagios nagios 4096 Jan 9 21:47 .
> drwxrwxr-x 8 nagios nagios 4096 Jan 7 01:52 ..
> drwxrwxr-x 2 n
>  agios nagios 4096 Jan 8 00:00 archives
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 Jan 9 20:53 comment.log
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 Jan 9 20:53 downtime.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jan 9 18:04 nagios.lock
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 822693 Jan 9 21:23 nagios.log
> drwxrwsr-x 2 nagios nagiocmd 4096 Jan 9 21:33 rw
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 42078 Jan 9 21:47 status.log
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 31332 Jan 9 20:53 status.sav
>
> and ...
>
> [obeauche@mrtg var]# cat /etc/group | grep nagio
> apache:x:48:otrs,nagios,nagiocmd
> nagios:x:503:apache
> nagiocmd:x:505:nagios,apache
>
> and ...
>
> command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
> check_external_commands=1
> log_external_commands=1
>
>
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