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OK, I've been digging through the source code a bit to see if I can get any more ideas. I searched for the error string I was seeing and found this snippet in cmd.c, line 1833: else if(authorized == FALSE) { if(content_type == WML_CONTENT) printf("<p>Error: You're not authorized to commit that ...

I verified that the www-data user is a member of both groups: cat /etc/group | grep www-data www-data:x:33:nagios nagios:x:1001:www-data nagcmd:x:1002:nagios,www-data I also verified that permissions seem to be set correctly on the directory and on the CGI files themselves: ls -l total 24 drwxrwxr-x...

I had high hopes for this one when I saw that the group for the rw directory was www-data. I recursively set it to nagcmd and restarted Nagios, but still no luck. When I try to schedule downtime I still see the message saying that I am not authorized to commit the specified command.

Thank you for the suggestion, but it did not seem to resolve the issue for me. I just saw the permission error again when trying to schedule downtime for a host.

Thank you for the reply. I remembered that the group had initially been the nagios group and I had changed it to nagcmd at some point in the troubleshooting process. I switched it back and things are somewhat better. I can now see the process information, but I was not able to turn notifications on ...

Hello, I have been getting started with Nagios and finding it to very helpful, but I am having an issue with executing some commands. When I try to acknowledge an alert, view process information, or change notifications (for example), all while logged in to the Nagios web interface as nagiosadmin, I...